In gratitude for the kind reception he met with, Saturn endowed Janus with extraordinary prudence, with knowledge of future events, and with perpetual remembrance of the past. […] The feasts of this goddess were celebrated with the noise of drums and cymbals, and with frightful yells and cries. […] He was generally painted as a beautiful winged boy, with a bow and arrows, and very often with a bandage over his eyes. […] Milk, cakes, and fruit, were offered to him, and his image was crowned with flowers and rubbed with oil. […] They daily sprinkle it with oil and adorn it with flowers.