Iānuae Iānī
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The little Temple of Janus in the Roman Forum. In time of war its great bronze doors stood open; only when Rome was at peace everywhere were they shut. It had happened only twice in all Rome's history before the emperor Augustus. Now the soldiers have come home, and the doors are closing again.
Doves rise into the air, a torch burns by the doors, and the crowd carries wreaths. Seven puzzles stand between you and the closing of the doors. Solve them all, and one last word tells you about the peace that followed.
Crossword — war, peace and the Forum, in Latin from Book 3.
Anagrams — unscramble seven things the crowd does.
Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
Matching — two verbs, claudō ("shut") and aperiō ("open"), in the passive: present, imperfect and perfect.
Picture Count — reassemble the temple and its doors, then count what you see.
Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters spell the final word.
Every answer box checks itself. Spelling and capitals are forgiving, and macrons are never needed.
Fifteen words of war and peace. Every clue gives the English meaning; you supply the Latin. Fill the grid — every crossing letter must agree both ways. Eight cells are marked in red: once the grid is solved, their letters unscramble into one more word.
The grid is correct. Unscramble the eight red letters:
Seven things the crowd does. Unscramble each one.
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The password was:
Mānsit — it lasted. Before Augustus, the doors of Janus had been shut only twice in seven hundred years. He shut them three times, and the peace he brought, the Pāx Augusta, lasted for generations.