lararium
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In the home they maintained a lararium, a shrine in which the spirits of ancestors were honored.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Feeling for the door which led to the sleeping-rooms, he saw the gleaming flame of a small lamp, and approaching it saw the lararium in which was a cross instead of lares.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
"In the lararium, O praefect," replied the soldier without hesitation.
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
I have it now in the lararium, and I approach it yet, I cannot tell why, as if there were something divine in it,—that is, with awe and reverence.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
Armed with all these necessaries, he made his way back to the lararium without again crossing the peristylium where the soldiers were assembled.
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
His face was black, and resembled those waxen masks kept in lararia.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
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