. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Vestal Virgin. THE ROMAN RELIGION. 31 The Lares and Penates were household gods. Theirimages were set in the entrance of the dwelling. TheLares were the spirits of ancestors, which were thought tolinger about the home as its guardians. This worship of ancestors was one of the most importantelements in the religion of the ancient Romans. It wasthis religion of the domestic hearth that helped greatly to. Divining by Means of the Appearance of the Entrails ofa Sacrificial Victim. (This was with the Romans a usual way of foret
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Vestal Virgin. THE ROMAN RELIGION. 31 The Lares and Penates were household gods. Theirimages were set in the entrance of the dwelling. TheLares were the spirits of ancestors, which were thought tolinger about the home as its guardians. This worship of ancestors was one of the most importantelements in the religion of the ancient Romans. It wasthis religion of the domestic hearth that helped greatly to. Divining by Means of the Appearance of the Entrails ofa Sacrificial Victim. (This was with the Romans a usual way of foretelling future events.) make the Roman family what it was, that gave the fatherhis priestly authority (par. 6), and that organized manyof the institutions of the Roman The studentshould bear this feature of the early Roman religion care-fully in mind, for the reason that it formed to the very lastthe most vital element in it, and for the further reasonthat it was the germ out of which later grew important2 Read Coulanges, The Ancient City. 32 ROME AS A KINGDOM. religious developments, as, for instance, the strange cultof the Caesars (par. 216). 23. Oracles and Divination. — The Romans, like theGreeks, thought that the will of the gods was communicatedto men by means of oracles, and by strange sights, unusualevents, or singular coincidences. There were no true ora-cles at Rome. The Romans, therefore, often had recourseto those among the Greeks. Particularly
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