lemures

These ideas are older than our science, for the name, Lemures, given them means "ghosts."

There is, however, some confusion even among the ancients themselves, as to the respective qualities of the larvæ and lemures.

Philosophy, never fit for the people, had entered the best houses, and the image of Epicurus had taken the place of the Lemures.

Apuleius, however, is wholly uncritical, and the distinction between Larvæ and Lemures is certainly not borne out by facts.