Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Janitrix

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

JA'NITRIX. A duenna. (Plaut. Curc. i. 1. 76.) Böttiger and other writers infer from the above, and some passages of Tibullus (i. 6. 61. and i. 8. 76.), that female slaves were employed as doorkeepers, and ushers in the ante-rooms of their mistress's house. But such a notion is absolutely inconceivable; the word is merely used in an allusive sense, as explained.