Penates

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §29 Penates

  The household gods of the family and storeroom, abandoned at the fall of Alba.

• The History of Rome, Book 3 §17 Penates

  The household gods of the storeroom; the public Penates were the protecting deities of the Roman state as a whole.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §30 its household gods

  The Penates, gods of the Roman household and state, whose desertion the move to Veii would entail.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §4 the household gods

  The Penates, the household gods of hearth and storeroom; to be driven from them is Livy's image of utter exile.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §1 Penates

  The household and state gods of the storeroom, whose worship a magistrate carried with his auspices.