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Lemures

Lemures · m

shades, ghosts

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Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

Lĕmŭres — Lewis & Short

Lĕmŭres, um, m.,

I shades, ghosts of the departed.

I Lit.: Lemures animas dixere silentum, Ov. F. 5, 483.—

B Transf., in gen., ghosts, spectres: lemures larvae nocturnae et terrificationes imaginum et bestiarum, Non. 135, 15 sq.: somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnos lemures portentaque Thessala rides, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 209: tunc nigri lemures ovoque pericula rupto, Pers. 5, 185.—Hence,

II Lĕmū-rĭa, ōrum, n., a festival held on the 9th, 11th, and 13th of May to appease the ghosts of the departed: nocturna, Ov. F. 5, 421 sq.

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Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. lemurés (scan p. 375; entry #5922).

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