The language of affection could not be uttered with more cordiality, simplicity, and grace than in the poem of ten or eleven lines welcoming Veranius on his return from Spain,- Venistine domum ad tuos Penates Fratresque unanimos anumque matrem?
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
And whither has she transported her sheep-that is to say, her rural Penates?"
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
His sacred image found a place among the Penates of every household, and the home where it was not honoured was of more than suspected piety.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill