LARI — Lararium in the atrium of the House of Menander — Pompeii.
The legendary figure demonstrates that it had originally been a divinity, whose precise memory had already been lost in the public consciousness at the time when our historical documentation begins.
BIBL.: W. Warde Fowler, Roman festivals, Londra 1899, p. 275 and following; G. Wissowa, Religion und Kultus der Römer, 2nd ed., Monaco 1912, p. 233 and following; E. Tabeling, Mater Larum, Francoforte s. M. 1932, p. 39 and following. Angelo Brelich