Quadrifrons
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Quadrifrons is a Latin word, meaning four-fronted or four-faced, particularly:
- Form of triumphal arch (e.g., at Glanum, Arch of Janus, Rutupiae) with four arches (one pair opposite each other, and the second pair opposite each other at right angles) and hence with barrel vaulted passageway in the form of a cross.
- Aspect of Janus, god.
Quadrifrons is believed to be the fourth face of the God Janus and represents an aspect of the God's attitude and life-cycle.
Quadrifrons represents death and destruction or the end of the life-cycle while Trifrons represents wisdom and Bifrons represents virility thus completing the beginning-to-end cycle that begins with Janus itself.
It is also sometimes used in scientific classification, for example, Eremias.
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