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Quadrifrons

A surname of Janus. It is said that after the conquest of the Faliscans an image of Janus was found with four foreheads. Hence a temple of Janus Quadrifrons was afterwards built in the Forum transitorium, which had four gates. The fact of the god being represented with four heads 人 is considered by the ancients to be an indication of his being the divinity presiding over the year with its four seasons.

Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius. A celebrated rhetorician, born in Spain. He opened a school of rhetoric at Rome, and was the first who obtained a salary from the state as a public teacher. He died A. D. 95.

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