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Lar (Plural LARES l r z more ally)

plural LARES (lā'rēz), more ally a deified ancestor or hero. The worship of the Lares is a species of Manes Worship, and was very prevalent among the Romans.

They were of two kinds: domestic and public . Of the forfounder of the family, and inseparable mer the Lar familiaris, regarded as the therefrom, was the most important, and corresponded to the eponymic hero of the Greeks. The latter was divided into Præstites, guardians of a whole city; over a certain portion of a city; Rurales tion of a city; Rurales, gods of the country; Viales, protecting travelers; and : 25), gods of the ocean. (See PENATES.) tan, in South Persia; on a wooded plain,