Varro on the other hand had clear the relevance of the function of starting a new life by opening the way to the semen and therefore started his enumeration of the gods with Janus, following the pattern of the Carmen Saliare. Macrobius gives the same interpretation of the epithet in his list: ""Consivius from sowing (conserendo), i. e. from the propagation of the human genre, that is disseminated by the working of Janus"." as the most ancient form. He though does not consider "" to be an epithet of Janus but a theonym in its own right.