Meaning of lemures | Babel Free

Definitions

The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.

Roman, plural, plural-only

Examples

“The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.”

“So still lay the figure, and so dim was its outline, that any other than Arbaces might have felt a superstitious fear, lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who, above all other spots, haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed.”

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