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
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 Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
That little cross of boxwood twigs which she had left reminded him of her,—that cross, which he had placed in the lararium and revered involuntarily as something divine.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
There were also horizontal spaces, little steps like those of a lararium, or shelves, on which were placed those objects that could stand upright.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
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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