lares and penates

There's some stuff here about lares and penates that seems to it the bill.'

'These are the lares and penates of the Steeds,' she said.

Here, the gods are the lares and penates, and heaven "your own little place."

Before the minute, which she timed watch in hand, was over, all came forth bearing armloads of their lares and penates.

She was also one of its most private, a circumstance seemingly at odds with her family's putting up her lares and penates for public consumption.

"The Lares and Penates, do you think?"

'Lares and penates?

Many aediculae were household shrines that held small altars or statues of the Lares and Penates.

All those blenders, mixers, grinders and other appliances serve as gods - mechanical lares and penates of the American home.

The Vestals cared for the Lares and Penates of the state that were the equivalent of those enshrined in each home.

"In Roman times they had household gods, Lares and Penates," Mr. Nixon said.

This was not a matter of feeding a horse snake or the python at Delphi-or of bowing before the lares and penates of his home.

Under the circumstances, Hilary, I feel obliged to keep my Lares and Penates about me.' '

We must offer to the Lares and Penates and Vesta that one day we are all reunited."

He accumulated materials for his major work Lares and Penates (1853), which was edited by William Francis Ainsworth.

he asked, stepping out of his toga as he walked to the altar of the Lares and Penates on the far wall.

Calpurnia broke off a piece of the best-looking honey-cake and took it across to the shrine of the Lares and Penates.

'Lares and penates, Archchancellor, but I wasn't suggesting-' 'Seems dear to me.

He carried with him the Lares and Penates, the statues of the household gods of Troy, and transplanted them to Italy.

1881 Lares and Penates: Or the Background of Life, Chatto & Windus, London.

Aeneas also carries the Lares and Penates of Troy, which the historical Romans claimed to preserve as guarantees of Rome's own security.

He has drawn parallels between the kobold and the Roman lares and penates and the Anglo-Saxon cofgodas, "room-gods".

Perhaps there is something to lares and penates, to the notion of household gods, and slicing and stewing and sauteing is our way to placate them.

"However, I did remember that Lucius Ahenobarbus said the contracts with numina like the Lares and Penates were drawn up by Romulus.

The first warm weather finds them scuttling about, carting the family lares and penates from their new Explorers, opening up their "homes" once again to get ready for the summer.