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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Who, then, is Janus, with whom Varro commences? He\r\nis the world. Certainly a very brief and unambiguous reply.\r\nWhy, then, do they say that the beginnings of things pertain\r\nto him, but the ends to another whom they call Terminus?\r\nFor they say that two months have been dedicated to these\r\ntwo gods, with reference to beginnings and ends—January to\r\nJanus, and February to Terminus—over and above those ten\r\nmonths which commence with March and end with December.\r\nAnd they say that that is the reason why the Terminalia\r\nare celebrated in the month of February, the same month\r\nin which the sacred purification is made which they call\r\nFebruum, and from which the month derives its name.<a id=\"FNanchor_260_260\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_260_260\">[260]</a>\r\nDo the beginnings of things, therefore, pertain to the world,\r\nwhich is Janus, and not also the ends, since another god<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_269\">[Pg 269]</a></span>\r\nhas been placed over them? Do they not own that all\r\nthings which they say begin in this world also come to an end\r\nin this world? What folly it is, to give him only half power\r\nin work, when in his image they give him two faces! Would\r\nit not be a far more elegant way of interpreting the two-faced\r\nimage, to say that Janus and Terminus are the same, and that\r\nthe one face has reference to beginnings, the other to ends?\r\nFor one who works ought to have respect to both. For he\r\nwho in every forthputting of activity does not look back on\r\nthe beginning, does not look forward to the end. Wherefore\r\nit is necessary that prospective intention be connected with\r\nretrospective memory. For how shall one find how to finish\r\nanything, if he has forgotten what it was which he had begun?\r\nBut if they thought that the blessed life is begun in this\r\nworld, and perfected beyond the world, and for that reason\r\nattributed to Janus, that is, to the world, only the power of\r\nbeginnings, they should certainly have preferred Terminus to\r\nhim, and should not have shut him out from the number of\r\nthe select gods. Yet even now, when the beginnings and ends\r\nof temporal things are represented by these two gods, more\r\nhonour ought to have been given to Terminus. For the greater\r\njoy is that which is felt when anything is finished; but things\r\nbegun are always cause of much anxiety until they are brought\r\nto an end, which end he who begins anything very greatly\r\nlongs for, fixes his mind on, expects, desires; nor does any one\r\never rejoice over anything he has begun, unless it be brought\r\nto an end.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK SEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-485"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7c2e8eec0d432582a2b30ca6a2eb150eec617eb0d8d92b0f398f534a91ae43cc","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_260_260","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_260_260","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_260_260\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_260_260\"><span class=\"label\">[260]</span></a> An interesting account of the changes made in the Roman year by Numa is\r\ngiven in Plutarch's life of that king. Ovid also (<i>Fasti</i>, ii.) explains the derivation\r\nof February, telling us that it was the last month of the old year, and\r\ntook its name from the lustrations performed then: \"Februa Romani dixere\r\npiamina patres.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_260_260","text_sha256":"a8d26349f4bf1436eb2d666987b8ed76efd9344f172d93a0f5c588b22f15d969","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_260_260