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Penates

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Pe·na·tes  (p-ntz, -nä-)
pl.n. Roman Mythology
The Roman gods of the household, tutelary deities of the home and of the state, whose cult was closely connected and often identified with that of the Lares.
[Latin Pents, from penus, foodstuff, interior of a house.]
penates [pəˈnɑːtiːz]
pl n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) See lares and penates
[Latin]


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When therefore, about this time, an auction was one night announced to take place in the hall, at which, amongst the superfluities of other boys, all Diggs's penates for the time being were going to the hammer, East and Tom laid their heads together, and resolved to devote their ready cash (some four shillings sterling) to redeem such articles as that sum would cover.
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