On a bus or train route, the terminus is the last stop, where the bus or train turns round or starts a journey in the opposite direction. termini the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line
The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line
either end of a railroad or bus route (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome