Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lararium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LARA'RIUM. A sort of shrine, small chapel, or apartment where the statues of the Lares, or guardian-spirits of a household, as well as other sanctified or deified personages, were placed and worshipped. (Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 29. and 31.) Such an arrangement, however, was probably peculiar to particular individuals, or to great houses and persons of wealth, for the usual situation for images of the Lares was over or beside the hearth (focus) in the great hall or atrium of the house.