I.a ghost, spectre: “larvae stimulant virum,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 66: “amator qui me et uxorem ludificatust larva,” id. Cas. 3, 4, 2; id. Aul. 4, 4, 15: cum mortuis non nisi larvas luctari, Plin. praef. H. N. § 31.—As a term of reproach, hobgoblin, scarecrow: “etiam loquere larŭa?” Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 20: “nam haec quidem edepol larvarum plenast,” possessed, id. Am. 2, 2, 145.—
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B. A skeleton, Petr. 34, 8.