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Dextera Patris, lapis angularis, via salutis, ianua caelestis, ablue nostri maculas delicti.
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Dextera Patris, lapis angularis, via salutis, ianua caelestis, ablue nostri maculas delicti.
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* Janus is the Roman god of gates and doors (ianua), beginnings and endings, and hence represented with a double-faced head, each looking in opposite directions ....
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Circa h鎐 igitur tempora mentibus nostris � coelo redditta lux est, et regni coelestis ianua per sinceriorem doctrin� Christian� expositionem reserata.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Circa hæc igitur tempora mentibus nostris è coelo redditta lux est, et regni coelestis ianua per sinceriorem doctrinæ Christianæ expositionem reserata.
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The same sense of _prodere_ at _Met_ II 433 'impedit amplexu nec se sine crimine _prodit_', _Met_ XIV 740-41 'adapertaque ianua factum/prodidit', and _Am_ I viii 109 'uox erat in cursu, cum me mea
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Ita haec morata est ianua: extemplo ianitorem 390 clamat, procul si quem videt ire ad se calcitronem. sed quid venis? quid quaeritas?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Janus, the _ianua_ itself; the hearth was in the care of the womenfolk, the wife and daughters, so it was a goddess, Vesta, whom they served; and the storage-niche, the _penus_, was in the keeping of the
The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome Jesse Benedict Carter 1894
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Lucretius describes the open gate and 'huge wide-gaping maw' which must devour heaven, earth, and sea, and all that they contain: -- haut igitur leti præclusa est ianua cælo nec soli terræque neque altis æquoris undis, sed patet immani et vasto respectat hiatu.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Lucretius describes the open gate and 'huge wide-gaping maw' which must devour heaven, earth, and sea, and all that they contain: -- haut igitur leti præclusa est ianua cælo nec soli terræque neque altis æquoris undis, sed patet immani et vasto respectat hiatu.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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