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[9] larem: the guardian deity of the household, worshipped with the penates at the hearth. The plural occurs but once in Plautus ( Pl. Rud. 1206ut rem divinam faciam laribus familiaribus” ), and the word not at all in Terence; but from this time down the plural is common as a designation for the home, especially in connection with penates with which divinities the lares came to be practically identified.


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