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claviger

claviger, club-bearing

claviger2, the keybearer

clāvĭger, gĕra, gĕrum, adj.,
  • club-bearing; as an epithet of Hercules [clava gero], the club-bearer (v. clava, 1.), Ov. M. 15, 22; 15, 284; id. F. 1, 544; 4, 68.—Also of the robber Periphetes: clavigera proles, Ov. M. 7, 437: clavigerum numen, Sil. 3, 14.
clāvĭger, gĕri, m. [clavis-gero],
  • the key-bearer, an epithet of Janus, as the god of doors, Ov. F. 1, 228; cf. Macr. S. 1, 9.

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