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And in this happy spirit of filial piety he will live until his hair grows white and his hand shaky and his teeth fall out and service gives place to worship, dulia to latria, and the most revered idol among his penates is the photograph of his departed master.

Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880

There they all are -- Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie together with Oprah and Brangelina and Barack -- a little company of domesticated deities standing in for the lares and penates who sheltered the households of ancient Rome.

Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010

There they all are -- Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie together with Oprah and Brangelina and Barack -- a little company of domesticated deities standing in for the lares and penates who sheltered the households of ancient Rome.

Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010

There they all are -- Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie together with Oprah and Brangelina and Barack -- a little company of domesticated deities standing in for the lares and penates who sheltered the households of ancient Rome.

Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010

There they all are -- Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie together with Oprah and Brangelina and Barack -- a little company of domesticated deities standing in for the lares and penates who sheltered the households of ancient Rome.

Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010

I kissed your cloth shadow . . ." or casting back to the lares and penates of her own childhood "The ritual walk to the bakery, Fridays/before supper.

Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Through a large portion of his career in Germany he lived in furnished rooms, not because he did not possess furniture of his own, which was stored up, but because he paid no sort of homage to his own penates.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

He had a great sympathy for the Roman belief in the penates and lares or household gods—this was, he noted, a homely religion.

Oikos and Logos: Chesterton's Vision of Distributism 2008

For some reason known only to the various technological demons, lares and penates governing this modern age, my computer has recently decided to stop recognsing the wireless modem.

2008 October 21 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

Through a large portion of his career in Germany he lived in furnished rooms, not because he did not possess furniture of his own, which was stored up, but because he paid no sort of homage to his own penates.

Henrik Ibsen 2008