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Since, therefore, Janus is the world, and Jupiter is the world,
wherefore are Janus and Jupiter two gods, while the world is but
one? Why do they have separate temples, separate altars, different
rites, dissimilar images? If it be because the nature of beginnings
is one, and the nature of causes another, and the one has received the
name of Janus, the other of Jupiter; is it then the case, that if
one man has two distinct offices of authority, or two arts, two judges
or two artificers are spoken of, because the nature of the offices or
the arts is different? So also with respect to one god: if he have
the power of beginnings and of causes, must he therefore be thought to
be two gods, because beginnings and causes are two things? But if
they think that this is right, let them also affirm that Jupiter is as
many gods as they have given him surnames, on account of many powers;
for the things from which these surnames are applied to him are many and
diverse. I shall mention a few of them.
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