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                    "description": "Lăres (noun F) : \n* A city in Numidia, Sall. J. 90 Kritz N. cr."
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                    "description": "Lăres | Lăses | Lar (noun M.m) : (old form ‡ , Inscr. Fratr. Arval.; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 2 Müll.), um and ĭum (Larum, Varr. L. L. 5, § 49 Müll.; Cic. Rep. 5, 5, 7; id. N. D. 3, 25, 63; id. Leg. 2, 8, 19; Inscr. Orell. 961:\n* Larium,Liv. 40, 52), m.old Lat. Lases; Etrusc. Laran, Lalan; root las-; cf. lascivus, tutelar deities, Lares, belonging orig. to the Etruscan religion, and worshipped especially as the presiders over and protectors of a particular locality (cf. Otfr. Müll. Etrusc. 2, p. 90 sq.): praestites,the tutelar deities of an entire city,Ov. F. 5, 129 sq.: mille Lares geniumque ducis, qui tradidit illos, urbs habet,id. ib. 5, 145: Puteolanae civitatis,Inscr. Orell. 1670: civitatum, Inscr. ap. Grut. p. 10, 2: vicorum,Arn. 3, 41: rurales, Inscr. ap. Grut. p. 251: compitales,of cross - roads,Suet. Aug. 31; called also Lares compitalicii, Philarg. ad Verg. G. 2, 381: viales,worshipped by the road-side,Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 24: permarini,tutelar deities of the sea,Liv. 40, 52: caelipotentes, Inscr. ap. Tert. de Spect. 5.—Sing.: Lari viali,Inscr. Orell. 1762; 1894: eundem esse Genium et Larem, multi veteres memoriae prodiderunt,Censor. 3, 2.\n* Most commonly the Lares (as familiares or domestici), the tutelar deities of a house, household gods, domestic Lares (whose images stood on the hearth in a little shrine, aedes, or in a small chapel, lararium); as the tutelar deities of each particular dwelling, also in sing.: , , m.\n* In plur.: rem divinam facere Laribus familiaribus,Plaut. Rud. 5, 1, 17: sanctis Penatium deorum Larumque familiarium sedibus,Cic. Rep. 5, 5, 7; id. Quint. 27 fin.: ad aedem Larum,id. N. D. 3, 25, 63: immolet aequis porcum Laribus,Hor. S. 2, 3, 164: Laribus tuum Miscet numen,id. C. 4, 5, 34.\n* In sing.: ego Lar sum familiaris, ex hac familia,Plaut. Aul. prol. 2: haec imponuntur in foco nostro dari,id. ib. 2, 8, 16: familiae Lar pater, alium Larem persequi,id. Merc. 5, 1, 5 sq.\n* Meton., a hearth, dwelling, home (class.; usually in sing.): larem corona nostrum decorari volo,Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 1: relinquent larem familiarem suum?Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11, § 27: ad suum larem familiarem redire,id. ib. 2, 3, 54, § 125: nobis larem familiarem nusquam ullum esse?Sall. C. 20: paternus,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 51: patrius,id. S. 1, 2, 56; cf.: avitus apto Cum lare fundus,id. C. 1, 12, 43: gaudens lare certo,id. Ep. 1, 7, 58: parvo sub lare,id. C. 3, 29, 14: conductus,Mart. 11, 82, 2: deserere larem,to abandon one's home,Ov. F. 1, 478: pelli lare,to be driven from a place,id. ib. 6, 362: alumnus laris Antenorei,i. e. of the city of Padua,Mart. 1, 77, 2: ob eam rem tibi Lare commercioque interdico, Vet. Formul. ap. Paul. Sent. 3, 4, 7.\n* In plur., Ov. R. Am. 302: jussa pars mutare lares,Hor. C. S. 39.—Poet., of a bird's nest: avis in ramo tecta laremque parat,Ov. F. 3, 242: cum rapit Halcyones miserae fetumque laremque,Val. Fl. 4, 45."
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