Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Penates"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Penates \Pe*na"tes\, n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.)
The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over
the home and the family hearth. See {Lar}.
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