The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

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.