the tutelar gods of cross-roads

quā̆drĭvĭum, ii, n. [quattuor-via].

Lit., a place where four ways meet, a crossway, cross-road:

in quadriviis et angiportis,

Cat. 58, 4; so Juv. 1, 63:

DII,

the tutelar gods of cross-roads, Inscr. Grut. 84, 5; 1015, 1; Inscr. Rein. col. 1, n. 14.—

Transf., the assemblage of the four mathematical sciences (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy), Boëth. Arithmet. 1, 1.

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.