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The second in the Georgics: "Si non tanta quies iret frigusque caloremque Inter:" Georg. And shortly after, "Pagos et compita circum:" Ib. 382; And the third in the Aeneid: "Duros mille labores Rege sub Eurystheo, fatis Junonis iniquae, Pertulerit:" Aen.
The Lares seem to have been in origin the spirits of the family fields: they were worshipped, as Cicero tells us, 'on the farm in sight of the house, and they had their annual festival in the Compitalia, celebrated at the compita places where two or more properties marched.
The gods were above all the protectors of the boundary lines, and thus it came to pass that where two roads crossed and thus the corners of four farms came together the deities protecting these farms were worshipped together as the Lares Compitales, the Lares of the compita or cross-roads.
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