JANUS is exclusively a Latin deity, connected with the outer door of the house. He has two faces, one to look inward and the other to look outward. Ovid calls him the custodian of the universe, the opener and fastener of all things, looking inward and outward from the gate (Fasti I.117). Macrobius says that his two faces indicate wisdom, since Janus knows the past and foresees the future (Saturnalia I.7.20).

The time is January, FranklT 1252-1255, for Janus sits by the fire with double beard and drinks wine from his bugle horn. In the calendar of Les Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, folio 2, Janus is represented by two figures, one old, one young, and the old man drinks from a bugle horn. Pandarus invokes Janus, god of entry, as he enters Criseyde's palace, Tr II.77.

The name appears once initially, FranklT 1252, and once medially, Tr II.77.