Aeneas bore the sacred Penates from the flames of Troy at Hector's ghostly command, guarding them through every storm and landfall until he installed them in Lavinium as the divine guarantors of Rome's future.
Vesta guarded the Penates Publici within her temple's innermost sanctuary, the penus Vestae, making the hearth goddess protector of Rome's ancestral household gods.
Anchises carried the Penates from burning Troy, entrusting the household gods to his son's care. The Penates later appeared in a dream to correct Anchises's interpretation of Apollo's oracle, directing the Trojans to Italy.
Aeneas carried the sacred Penates from burning Troy across the Mediterranean and enshrined them at Lavinium, where they refused ever to be moved — each time they were transferred to Alba Longa, they returned of their own accord.
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