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.