The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin
1. JANUARY, _Carrying home a noble tree on his shoulders, the leafage of
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which nods forwards, and falls nearly to his feet._ Superbly cut. This
is a rare representation of him. More frequently he is represented as
the two-headed Janus, sitting at a table, drinking at one mouth and
eating at the other. Sometimes as an old man, warming his feet at a
fire, and drinking from a bowl; though this type is generally reserved
for February. Spenser, however, gives the same symbol as that on St.
Mark's:
"Numbd with holding all the day
An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood."
His sign, Aquarius, is obscurely indicated in the archivolt by some wavy
lines representing water, unless the figure has been broken away.
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