lares and penates

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The most prominent and revered of them all were the Lares and Penates.

From Literature

There were also public Lares and Penates, who did for the city what the others did for the family.

From Literature

Starting with the mid-19th-century former rectory in which he lives, he introduces us to a universe of fact, anecdote, history and whimsy spun out of the lares and penates around him.

From Washington Post

Nevertheless, as a mark of particular respect to some important chief now and then, affectionate survivors exempted his corpse from the oven, and smoking it entire, set it up amongst the Maori lares and penates as an ornament.

From Project Gutenberg

Tutelary divinities of Roman households, with the Lares and Penates, 203.

From Project Gutenberg