lararium
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lararia
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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
Fond as he was of monastic life, he extended hospitality to men of his own sentiments and habit of thought; and transformed the old lararium into a chapel of S. Andrew.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
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 Jeremiah Curtin
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 Jeremiah Curtin
His eyes passed to the lararium unconsciously, and to the little cross which she left him before going.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
His face was black, and resembled those waxen masks kept in lararia.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
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