Crossword-Solution: LARES 5 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Maggie Shane was sitting on the upper step of the long flight of stairs which lean precariously against the scarred face of the frame residence upon the second floor front of which the lares and penates of the Shane family are crowded into three ill-smelling rooms.

The adoration paid to the Lares and Penates, the household gods of the Romans, on the first of May, is an example of this worship, as is also the homage paid by the Chinese to their progenitors.

Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam Majorumque fames.” To which purpose the poet Lucan says: “—O vitæ tuta facultas Pauperis, angustique lares, o munera nondum Intellecta Deûm!” And Petronius: “Non bibit inter aquas nec poma fugacia carpit Tantalus infelix, quem sua vota premunt.

Clean hands and a pure heart, these, with a sacred cake and shining grains of salt, you could offer to the Lares.

Have you noticed anything in the shape of a lover hanging around the colonel Lares and Penates? Does that lieutenant of the horse-marines or that young Stillwater parson visit the house much? Not that I am pining for news of them, but any gossip of the kind would be in order.