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Title: The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ...
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Boyse, Samuel, 1708-1749 Cooke, William, d. 1780
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: Dublin : Printed for J. Jones ...
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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took the care or giiardianfhip of pri-vate families, and were called the lelTer Penates (7). Thefe domeftic gods were placed in the utmoftrecefs of the houfe, thence called Penetrale (8).Dardanus brought them from Samothracia to Troy,whence, on the deftrucTiion of that city, iEneastranfported them to Italy. They were reckoned fofacred, that the expreffion. of driving a man fromhis Penates (9), was ufed to fignify his being pro-fcribed, or expelled his country. Dionyfius, of HalicarnafTus, lib. i, fays, that hehad feen them at Rome, under the figure of twoyoung men fitting, with fpears in their hands. CHAP. (4) So called, from Penus, within, either hecaufe theyprefide over lives, or were placed in the innermoft parts ofthe houfe. (5) Viz. Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, and Vefta. Some dropVefta : Others make them only two, Neptune and Apollo :Ochers Caelum and Terra. (6) Virgil, ^neid III. 148. (7) ^neid VIII. 543. (8) See Horace, lib. IV. ode 4, a6(9) Virgil, iEncid IV. ai. ISIS. l^cufe.^yS
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rkefzA-atny^ye^uitc orSetniineTaM^ n.onrirv th eJSc€/lei4X *i Sji^atr^. THE HEATHEN GODS. 175 CHAP. LXII. OF THE GENII. Some do not dlflinguidi between thefe and thePenates, or Lares ; but they were very different.The ancients affigned to every thing its guardian orpeculiar genius ; cities, groves, fountains, hills, wereall provided with keepers of t1iis kind, and to eachman they allotted no iefs than two, one good, theother bad (i), who iittended him from the cradle tothe grave. The Greeks called them Dsemons. Theywere named Prseftltes, from their fuperintendinghuman affairs. The lacrifices offered thefe divinities were wine (a)and Howers, to which they joined incenfe, parchedWiieat, and fait. Sometinits the vidim was a fwine(3), though animal offerings were not uuial to them.The Genii were reprefc;;ted under various figures,fuch as thofe of boys, girls, olil men, and even fer-pents. Thefe images were crowned with plane-treeleaves, a tree confecrated to the Genii. By Genius, is mea

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