hearth and home

āra, ae, f. (Osc. form aasa; Umbr. asa: PELLEX. ASAM. IVNONIS. NE. TAGITO., Lex Numae ap. Gell. 4, 3, 3; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 219; Macr. S. 3, 2) [perh. Sanscr. ās, Gr. hêmai, Dor. hêsmai = to sit, as the seat or resting-place of the victim or offering; v. Curt. p. 381 sq.], an altar.

Lit.: Jovis aram sanguine turpari, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85 (Trag. v. 125 Vahl.):

Inde ignem in aram, ut Ephesiae Dianae laeta laudes,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 1:

omnīs accedere ad aras... aras sanguine multo Spargere,

Lucr. 5, 1199 sq.; so id. 1, 84:

turicremas aras,

id. 2, 353 (adopted by Verg. A. 4, 453);

2, 417: multo sanguine maesti Conspergunt aras adolentque altaria donis,

id. 4, 1237 al.:

ara Aio Loquenti consecrata,

Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:

ara condita atque dicata,

Liv. 1, 7; cf. Suet. Claud. 2:

ara sacrata,

Liv. 40, 22; cf. Suet. Tib. 14:

exstruere,

id. Aug. 15; so Vulg. 4 Reg. 21, 4:

construere,

ib. 2 Par. 33, 3:

facere,

ib. ib. 33, 15:

erigere,

ib. Num. 23, 4:

aedificare,

ib. 3 Reg. 14, 23:

ponere,

ib. ib. 16, 32:

destruere,

ib. Exod. 34, 13, and ib. Jud. 6, 25:

subvertere,

ib. Deut. 7, 5:

dissipare,

ib. ib. 12, 3:

suffodere,

ib. Jud. 31, 32:

demolire,

ib. Ezech. 6, 4:

depopulari, ib. Osee, 10, 2: interibunt arae vestrae,

ib. Ezech. 6, 6 et saep.—Altars were erected not only in the temples, but also in the streets and highways, in the open air, Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 20.—Esp. were altars erected in the courts of houses (impluvia), for the family gods (Penates), while the household gods (Lares) received offerings upon a small hearth (focus) in the family hall (atrium); hence, arae et foci, meton. for home, or hearth and home, and pro aris et focis pugnare, to fight for altars and fires, for one's dearest possessions:

urbem, agrum, aras, focos seque dedere,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 71:

te amicum Deiotari regis arae focique viderunt,

Cic. Deiot. 3:

de vestris conjugibus ac liberis, de aris ac focis, decernite,

id. Cat. 4, 11, 24; id. Sest. 42:

nos domicilia, sedesque populi Romani, Penates, aras, focos, sepulcra majorum defendimus,

id. Phil. 8, 3:

patriae, parentibus, aris atque focis bellum parare,

Sall. C. 52, 3:

pro patriā, pro liberis, pro aris atque focis suis cernere,

id. ib. 59, 5:

sibi pro aris focisque et deūm templis ac solo, in quo nati essent, dimicandum fore,

Liv. 5, 30 et saep.—Criminals fled to the altars for protection, Don. ad Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 22:

interim hanc aram occupabo,

Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 45:

Priamum cum in aram confugisset, hostilis manus interemit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85:

eo ille confugit in arāque consedit,

Nep. Paus. 4, 4:

Veneris sanctae considam vinctus ad aras: haec supplicibus favet,

Tib. 4, 13, 23.—Hence, trop., protection, refuge, shelter:

tamquam in aram confugitis ad deum,

Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 25:

ad aram legum confugere,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3:

hic portus, haec ara sociorum,

id. ib. 2, 5, 48; Ov. Tr. 4, 5, 2; 5, 6, 14; id. H. 1, 110; id. P. 2, 8, 68.—One who took an oath was accustomed to lay hold of the altar, in confirmation of it, Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 46:

qui si aram tenens juraret, crederet nemo,

Cic. Fl. 36, 90; Nep. Hann. 2, 4 (cf. Liv. 21, 1):

tango aras, medios ignes et numina testor,

Verg. A. 12, 201; 4, 219: ara sepulcri, a funeral pile, regarded as an altar, Verg. A. 6, 177; Sil. 15, 388.—

Meton.

The Altar, a constellation in the southern sky, Gr. Thutêrion (Arat. 403 al.): Aram, quam flatu permulcet spiritus austri, poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 44, 114; so Cic. Arat. 202; 213 Orell.; Hyg. Astr. 2, 39, and id. ib. 3, 38:

pressa,

i. e. low in the south, Ov. M. 2, 139. —

Arae, The Altars.

Rocky cliffs in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily Sardinia and Africa, so called from their shape, Varr. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 108;

Quadrig. Ann. ib.: saxa vocant Itali, mediis quae in fluctibus, Aras,

Verg. A. 1, 109.—

Arae Philaenorum, v. Philaeni.—

Transf., in gen., a monument of stone:

ara virtutis,

Cic. Phil. 14, 13:

Lunensis ara,

of Lunensian marble, Suet. Ner. 50 fin. —Also [p. 150] a tombstone:

ARAM D. S. P. R. (de suā pecuniā restituit),

Inscr. Orell. 4521; so ib. 4522; 4826.

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Lăres (old form ‡ Lăses, 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:

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.—

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.: Lar, Laris, m.

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. —

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. —

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.—

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.

Lăres, ĭum, f., a city in Numidia, Sall. J. 90 Kritz N. cr.

Pĕnātes, ĭum (Penatis singulariter Labeo Antistius posse dici putat, quia pluraliter Penates dicuntur, cum patiatur proportio etiam Penas dici, ut optimas, primas, Antias, Fest. p. 253 Müll. But the singular is never used; and for Denas = Penas, which some assume in Dion. Hal. 1, 68, it is probably most correct to read DIS MAGNIS, v. Ambrosch, Studien und Andeut. vol. i. p. 231 sq.— Acc. plur. PENATEIS, perh. Tab. Bant. lin. 22), m. [from the root pa, whence pascor, pabulum, pānis; also penus, and, through the notion of a storehouse or inner chamber, also penes, penetro; v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 270 sq.; cf. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 425 sq.].

Lit., the Penates, old Latin guardian deities of the household, and of the state formed of a union of households, whose seat was originally in Lavinium; usually connected with di: IN VELIA APVD AEDEM DEVM PENATIVM, Inscr. Varr. L. L. 5, § 54 Müll.; cf.:

aedes deorum Penatium in Veliā,

Liv. 45, 16:

AEDEM DEVM PENATIVM IN VELIA, Monum. Ancyr.: di Penates,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 1, 5 sq.: in mensā Penatium deorum, Naev. ap. Prob. Verg. E. 6, 31:

sanctis Penatium deorum Larumque familiarium sedibus,

Cic. Rep. 5, 5, 7; id. Deiot. 5, 15: MENS. IANVAR. SACRIFICANT. DIS. PENATIBVS, Calend. Farnes. ap. Inscr. Orell. 2, p. 380: v. s. Inscr. Orell. 1677; cf. ib. 1675 and 1678:

DIIS. DEABVS PENATIBVS FAMILIARIBVS ET IOVI CETERISQVE DIIBVS,

ib. 2118.—Without di:

vos Penates patriique dii,

Cic. Sest. 20, 45:

Ilium in Italiam portans victosque Penatis,

Verg. A. 1, 68; 5, 62:

impudens liqui patrios Penatis,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 49:

hostia Mollivit aversos Penates,

id. ib. 3, 23, 19:

iniqui,

id. ib. 2, 4, 15:

profugos posuistis Penates,

Ov. M. 3, 539; 9, 445; id. Tr. 1, 3, 45:

IVNIANI,

Inscr. Orell. 1587; cf.

, respecting the Penates,

Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 68; Varr. and Nigid. ap. Arn. 3, 123; Macr. 3, 4; Serv. Verg. A. 2, 296 and 325.—

Transf., a dwelling, home, hearth (cf. Lares, II.):

Quintius a suis dis penatibus praeceps ejectus,

Cic. Quint. 26, 83; id. Rosc. Am. 8, 23:

nostris succede penatibus hospes,

Verg. A. 8, 123:

ferro Libycos populare penates,

id. ib. 1, 527:

conducti penates,

Mart. 8, 75, 1:

sub uno tecto esse atque ad eosdem penates,

Liv. 28, 18.—Hence, poet., of the hearth:

flammis adolere penatis,

Verg. A. 1, 704.— Also, of the cells of bees, Verg. G. 4, 155; of the temple of a god, Stat. Th. 1, 643.