His attribute was a key and his main temple in the city of Rome, the Temple of Portunus, was to be found in the Forum Boarium.

Portunus appears to be closely related to the god Janus, with whom he shares many characters, functions and the symbol of the key.

Portunus may be defined as a sort of duplication inside the scope of the powers and attributes of Janus.

The paramount identification in the Latin poets of the Augustan age is with Portunus, the Roman god of safe harbours, memorably in Virgil's Georgics.

The Romans identified Palaemon with Portunus ( the harbour god ).

In Roman mythology, Portunes ( alternatively spelled Portumnes or Portunus ) was a god of keys, doors and livestock.

Probably because of folk associations between porta " gate, door " and portus " harbor ", the " gateway " to the sea, Portunus later became conflated with Palaemon and evolved into a god primarily of ports and harbors.

The flamen of Portunus performed the ritual greasing of the spear of the god Quirinus on August 17, day of the Portunalia, on the same date that the temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium had been consecrated ( by consul Caius Duilius in 260 BC ).

The Temple of Portunus () is an ancient building in Rome, Italy, the main temple dedicated to the god Portunus in the city.

a ) The proximity of Janus and Portunus and the functions of the flamen Portunalis.

Portunus, unlike Janus, had his own flamen, named Portunalis.

It is a major fishing and crabbing area in Western Australia, with the city well known for the Blue Manna Crab ( Portunus pelagicus ) with a festival held in early March known as Crabfest.

Temple of Portunus, with its tetrastyle portico of four Ionic order | Ionic columns

The genus Portunus contains more than 90 extant species and over 40 further species known only from fossils.

Located in the ancient Forum Boarium by the Tiber, during Antiquity the site overlooked the Port Tiberinus at a sharp bend in the river ; from here, Portunus watched over cattle-barges as they entered the city from Ostia.

Portunus is a genus of crab which includes several important species for fisheries, such as the blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus and the Gazami crab, P. trituberculatus.

One species, Portunus trituberculatus, accounts for one fifth of that total.

Other commercially important taxa include Portunus pelagicus, several species in the genus Chionoecetes, the blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ), Charybdis spp., Cancer pagurus, the Dungeness crab ( Metacarcinus magister ) and Scylla serrata, each of which yields more than 20, 000 tonnes annually.

Soldier Crabs ( Mictyris longicarpus ), Semaphore Crab ( Heloecius cordiformis ), Blue Swimmer Crabs ( Portunus pelagicus ) and Hermit Crabs ( Pagurus sinuatus ) also call the mangroves home.

The portico of this temple is derived from the Temple of Portunus which William Kent illustrates in the ceiling of the Red Velvet Room within the Villa.

The 20 plaster models are the work of Jean-Pierre Fouquet of Paris and were acquired by Soane in 1834 for £ 100, these include: Erechtheion, Tower of the Winds, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Pantheon, Rome, Temple of Vesta, Tivoli, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and the Temple of Portunus, the buildings are depicted as reconstructions not in their current ruined state.

The Romans favoured the four columned portico for their pseudoperipteral temples like the Temple of Portunus, and for amphiprostyle temples such as the Temple of Venus and Roma, and for the prostyle entrance porticos of large public buildings like the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine.

Temple of Portunus in the Forum Boarium.

His assumption seems to be that any such friends, being tolerable humans, must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at least partly in sympathy with his views.

From my wife's experience and other sources, this seems to be rarely encountered in educated circles.

There seems to be almost a conspiracy of silence veiling it.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

Next to the old problem of the slowness of decision making, network structure seems to be paramount, and without monitoring no network has value.

Feeling useless seems generally to be an unpleasant sensation.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

So far as `` sacredness '' inheres in any aspect of creation it seems to me to be found in human personality, whether in Lambarene, Africa, or in Washington, D.C..

His whole objection, indeed, seems to rise out of a deep conviction that the poets do have great power to influence, but Plato seldom pays any attention to what might be called the poem itself.

In recent years, however, a wind of change seems to be blowing through early English historical circles.

No page seems to be complete without the statement of at least one unproved generalization.

Now Britain has decided to seek admission to the European Economic Community and it seems certain that she will be joined by some of her partners in the loose Free Trade Area of the `` Outer Seven ''.

The economy seems to be sailing along on an even keel and the 1961 hurricane season and auto strikes are at an end so they can't be blamed in November.

And Walker looks stronger, seems to be throwing better than he did last year.

Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.

-- It seems college isn't what it should be.

The real trouble seems to be the failing imagination of U.S. playwrights.

It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends.

These opinions of the assessors are of significance in indicating what their thinking seems to be at the present time.

It seems reasonable that if general nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us.

Marquis Pick ( Gene Abbe-Direct Grattan ) seems to be the pick of the stable at the present time.

One or two of the schools have a five year curriculum, but the usual pattern of American education has limited most of them to the four-year plan which seems to be the minimum in acceptable institutions.