31/39 But the brazen temple of Janus was left standing in the forum; of a size sufficient only to contain the statue of the god, five cubits in height, of a human form, but with two faces directed to the east and west. The double gates were likewise of brass; and a fruitless effort to turn them on their rusty hinges revealed the scandalous secret that some Romans were still attached to the superstition of their ancestors. iii.) was ignorant of this clear and conspicuous passage of Procopius, (Goth.l.i.c. 21.) The engine was named the wild ass, a calcitrando, (Hen.Steph. Thesaur. |