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This view is strengthened by a consideration of the word janua itself.
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This view is strengthened by a consideration of the word janua itself.
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This view is strengthened by a consideration of the word janua itself.
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A door thus guarded might be known as a janua foris, that is, a Januan door, and the phrase might in time be abridged into janua, the noun foris being understood but not expressed.
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Yet besides this ordinary name for door, which the Latins shared with all their Aryan brethren, they had also the name janua, to which there is no corresponding term in any Indo-European speech.
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A door thus guarded might be known as a janua foris, that is, a Januan door, and the phrase might in time be abridged into janua, the noun foris being understood but not expressed.
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Yet besides this ordinary name for door, which the Latins shared with all their Aryan brethren, they had also the name janua, to which there is no corresponding term in any Indo-European speech.
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Yet besides this ordinary name for door, which the Latins shared with all their Aryan brethren, they had also the name janua, to which there is no corresponding term in any Indo-European speech.
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A door thus guarded might be known as a janua foris, that is, a
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Aspichmis dominam; sed postquam heu janua clausa est,
fbharjo commented on the word janua
janua door; threshold; hence January
January 12, 2007