lemures 的定义
Roman Religion.
- the ghosts of the dead of a family, considered as troublesome unless exorcised or propitiated; larvae.
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- I had read of banshees, lemures and leprechauns; they were the ghosts and the fairies of ignorance but they were not like this.
- Philosophy, never fit for the people, had entered the best houses, and the image of Epicurus had taken the place of the Lemures.
- The ghosts, or specters of the dead that came back to haunt and terrify the living were called lemures.
- Their hypothetical common ancestor, the Archipithecus, may have descended directly or indirectly from a branch of the Lemures.
- Lemur, the name given to that low family of monkeys, is from the plural Latin word lemures, meaning ghost or spectre.