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Prayers to the Penates

4 prayers
What is asked
Fontes · Sources
  • Arnobius · Adversus Nationes1
  • Plautus · Mercator1
  • Virgil · Aeneid1
  • Virgil · Georgics1
In the sources
Dii Penates · Penates
The name as each source prints it.
Orationes · The texts
  1. 001

    Prayer to Earth and the Penates

    Virgil · Aeneid · 7.120-122

    Hail, O Mother Tellus, for whom I am destined, and you, too, faithful Gods of Troy, hail O Penates. This is our home; this, our homeland.

    RomanInvocationGratitude
  2. 002

    Prayer to the Penates

    Plautus · Mercator · 834-835

    Divine Penates of our ancestors, to you I commend the good fortune of my parents, and to you, Spiritual Father of our family, that you safeguard them well.

    RomanPetitionDedication
  3. 003

    Prayer to the Penates and Vesta

    Virgil · Georgics · 1.498-501

    Gods of our Fathers, Indigetes, heroes native to this land, Romulus and Mother Vesta, who preserve Etruscan Tiber and Roman Palatine, in this at least do not prohibit, a young savior come to the aid of a generation decimated by war.

    RomanPetition
  4. 004

    Prayer to Neptune

    Arnobius · Adversus Nationes · III.43

    Come, Dii Penates, come Apollo and Neptune and all You Gods, and by Your powers may You mercifully turn aside this ill disease that violently twists, scorches and burns our city with fever.

    RomanPetitionProtection
Invoked alongside
Apollo1Earth1Neptune1Vesta1
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