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BIFRONS

Volume 3 · 53 words · 1823 Edition

a person double-fronted, or two-faced.

BIFRONS is more peculiarly an appellation of Janus, who was represented by the ancients with two faces, as being supposed to look both backwards and forwards; though other reasons for it are recited by Plutarch. Sometimes he was painted with four faces, quadrifrons, as respecting the four seasons.