He entreated the seamen to let him play upon his harp before they threw him overboard, and he played so sweetly that the dolphins flocked round the vessel. […] A title of Janus, from the gates before the doors of private houses being called Januæ. […] After a time Jason got tired of Medea, and married Glauce, which cruelty Medea revenged by killing her children before their father’s eyes. […] The supreme of the three judges of hell, before whom the spirits of the departed appeared and heard their doom. […] She had under her special care and protection a famous statue of Minerva, before which the Vestal Virgins kept a fire or lamp constantly burning.