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Question 22. Why are they of opinion that Janus was
double-faced, and do describe and paint him so?
Solution. Was it because he was a native Greek of
Perrhaebia (as they story it), and going down into Italy
and cohabiting with the barbarians of the country, changed
his language and way of living? Or rather because he persuaded those people of Italy that were savage and lawless
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to a civil life, in that he converted them to husbandry and
formed them into commonwealths?
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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