[256] Quadrifrons.
[257] Frons.
[258] "Quanto iste innocentior esset, tanto frontosior appareret;" being used for the shamelessness of innocence, as we use "face" for the shamelessness of impudence.
[259] Cicero, Tusc. Quæst. v. 13.
[260] An interesting account of the changes made in the Roman year by Numa is given in Plutarch's life of that king. Ovid also (Fasti, ii.) explains the derivation of February, telling us that it was the last month of the old year, and took its name from the lustrations performed then: "Februa Romani dixere piamina patres."
[261] Ennius, in Cicero, De Nat. Deor. ii. 18.
[262] John x. 9.
[263] Georgic, ii. 470.
[264] Summa, which also includes the meaning "last."
[265] Virgil, Eclog. iii. 60, who borrows the expression from the Phænomena of Aratus.