[2415] The Temple of Janus, in the Eighth Region of the City.
[2416] Probably by neither of them, as Janus was essentially an Italian Divinity. See Ovid’s Fasti, B. I.
[2418] A large upper garment, reaching to the ankles.
[2419] Both Liber and Libera were originally Italian Divinities, who presided over the vine and the fields. Pliny, however, always identifies the former with Bacchus, and other writers the latter with Persephone, or Proserpina, the daughter of Demeter or Ceres. Ovid, Fasti, B. iii. l. 512, calls Ariadne, “Libera.”
[2420] See B. xvi. c. 76.
[2421] A disciple of Marsyas, and a famous player on the flute. See p. [319].
[2422] All these figures have been found copied in the frescoes of Herculaneum.
[2424] It is doubtful whether this is the same artist that is mentioned in B. xxxiv. c. [19].