1) Ancient Roman religion 2) Ghosts of ancient Rome 3) Roman hostile spirits
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Latin, meaning: (pl. only) ghosts, phantoms.
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In Roman mythology, the lemures z were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of larvae iː (from Latin larva, `mask`) as disturbing or frightening. Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fast.....
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spirits of the dead
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• (n. pl.) Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
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in Roman religion, wicked and fearsome spectres of the dead. Appearing in grotesque and terrifying forms, they were said to haunt their living ...
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In Roman mythology, ghosts of the dead. They were exorcized at the annual three-day festival of Lemuria, or Lemuralia, in May. ...
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The evil spirits of the house, also known as Larvae.
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Lem'u·res (lĕm'u*rēz; E. lē'mūrz)
noun plural [ Latin See
Lemur .] Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters. « The Lars and
Lemures moan with midnight plaint.»
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Among the ancient Romans, lemures was the name given to the ghosts or souls of the dead. In order to appease them a ceremony called lemuria was observed on the nights of the 9th, llth, and 13th of May.
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(pl. only) ghosts, phantoms.
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