Janus must be reckoned among those gods called Indigetes. […] Their possessors are represented as employed in those pursuits, and enjoying those gratifications, which pleased them most, during life. […] His character and attributes greatly resemble those of the Grecian Apollo. […] Human victims were frequently offered by those who laboured under disease, or were about to go to battle. […] They associated to the Supreme God, many of those genii, who had been always considered as subordinate to him, and, by degrees, selected as the objects of their peculiar adoration, those divinities, whose dominion they supposed to be exercised principally over those things, which they most highly valued.