Domesticos deos, quos Lares dicitis, domestica potestate tractatis pignerando, venditando, demutando aliquando in caccabulum de Saturno, aliquando in trullam de Minerva, ut quisque contritus atque contusus est, dum diu colitur, ut quisque dominus sanctiorem expertus est domesticam necessitatem.
Gods of the house, whom you call lares, you deal with according to your household rights'pledging them, selling them, transforming them at times'making a cooking-pot of Saturn, a wash basin of Minerva, as each might be worn down and knocked about in the course of long worship'or as any particular owner might find domestic necessity more sacred.
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