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Spirits in Pompey's pad
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lares
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For the flag carrier airline of Romania, see TAROM . For the satellite, see LARES (satellite) LARES is an electronic sound enhancement system that uses microprocessors to control multiple loudspeakers and microphones placed around a performance space for ...
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Lar \Lar\ (l[aum]r), n.; pl. Lares , sometimes Lars . [L.] (Rom. Myth.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, (Fig.): Hearth or dwelling ...
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n. (plural of lar English)
Usage examples of lares.
What the men knew would happen, did: Lares Taborn, taking exception to the vulgar nickname, roared and charged like an enraged bull.
When Lares pulled Cree down on top of him and flipped the Reaper head-over-heels behind him, Raine could do no more than grunt with wonder as the Rysalian rolled to his feet, and without thought, spun around and dropped down on the dark man like a boulder.
His worry turned to anticipation as the Reaper thrust out his left leg and swept Lares from his feet.
He leaned forward, lowered his voice once more so only Lares might hear.
As the three Diabolusians began moving toward the rock pile, Lares showed up as if by dark magic.
He did not want to entertain the notion-such as the one Lares Taborn had put into his mind-that his woman could belong to the infamous group that was intent on driving him crazy and destroying the world as he knew it.
Thorne had managed to pull Kahn off Lares before McGregor reached Cree.
Arbra and Hern Belvoir, and the two Princes, Raine McGregor and Lares Taborn.
Glaucus, inclining reverentially to a beautiful image of the god placed in the centre of the table, at the corners of which stood the Lares and the salt-holders.
Didst thou not tell me that thy soul shook with remorse when thou wert compelled to place even a crumb of cake before the Lares that watch over yon impluvium?
So the crossroads were put under the protection of the Lares, shrines were built to the Lares at every crossroads even before there were fountains.
And at dawn of the third day he set sail for Italy, having offered a costly sacrifice to the Lares Permarini on the seashore just as light began to filter into the eastern rim of the world.
For the sake of convenience, I have located the College of Lictors behind the temple of the Lares Praestites on the eastern side of the Forum Romanum, but there is no factual evidence of this at all.
I have located the College of Lictors behind the temple of the Lares Praestites on the eastern side of the Forum Romanum adjacent to the great inn on the corner of the Clivus Orbius, but there is no factual evidence to support this location.
Like the Lares, the Di Penates eventually acquired a form, shape and sex, and were depicted as two youths, usually bronze statuettes.