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What are penates?

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Noun
  1. (historical) The household gods, in ancient Rome, thought to watch over one's house and storeroom; by extension, one's definitive household goods.
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Roman antiquarians identified the Cabeiri with the three Capitoline deities or with the Penates.
Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incantations.
Dissenters came to South Carolina in the decade 1680-1690, some of them persons of means who might have brought with them their lares and penates.
The particular gods of the household were its lares and penates.
This one is a New Year poem, called Lares Et Penates, inspired by the Roman concept of household gods.
Hamersley recognises them as part of the Penates of his late host.

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