Meaning of mānēs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. souls or spirits of the dead, shades, ghosts
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2. Mani, Manes
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3. the spirit of a specific dead person
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4. remains, the ashes or corpse of a dead person
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5. Hades, the netherworld
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Equivalents

Examples

“Id cinerem aut mānīs crēdis cūrāre sepultōs?”

“Do you [really] believe that [any of] this matters to ashes, or spirits entombed?” (Anna questions Dido’s devotion to her deceased husband; it may be a general statement about all spirits, or understood specifically about the dead Sychaeus. Some editors capitalize “Manis.” Commentary by T.E. Page [1967], pg. 348: “The poet uses the three words cinerem, Manes, sepultos to emphasise the idea of something which being destroyed, dead, and buried is utterly incapable of concern in what goes on among the living.”)

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