Some men call the ghosts of all dead things by yͤ name of _Lemures_. Thus saith =Apuleius=, Of those _Lemures_, he that hath care of his posteritie, and inhabiteth the house with a peaceable and quiet kinde of rule, was called _Lar familiaris_, god of the house. And be cause among the people of olde time, as they counted _Lares_ good, so they supposed _Lemures_ to be naught, therefore to driue them away, they did sacrifice vnto them. [Sidenote: Lemures.] Some other affirme, that _Lemures_ are soules which tarry about the bodies. =Porphyrius= calleth them the wandring soules of men departed before their time, as it were _Remures_, taking their name of =Remus=, whose soule folowed his brother =Romulus=: who to the intent he might pacifie them, instituted feastes called _Lemuria_. [Sidenote: Laruæ.] [Sidenote: Ceriti.] =Seruius= writeth, that _Vmbræ_ were called L_aruæ_: and they called dead mens soules by the name of V_mbræ_. Of L_aruæ_ men are called L_aruati_, that is to say, frantike men, and such as are vexed with spirits. Who also as (=Nonius= witnesseth) are called _Ceriti_. [Sidenote: Manes.] =Seruius= saith, that mennes soules are called _Manes_, at suche time as departing from their bodies, they are not yet passed into other bodies. And he iudgeth that they are so called by the figure ἁντίφρασις, (whiche is when one speaketh by contraries) of the olde adiectiue _Manus_, that is good, because they were nothing lesse than good. For the auncient people supposed, that _Manes_ were infernall gods, and therefore did they number them amongst their euil gods, and pacified them with sacrifice, least they should hurt them. Some affirme that _Manes_ are indéed infernall gods, but yet good: whereof commeth _Mane_, which signifieth good, and _Dii Manes_, as if you would say, good and prosperous gods, and therof also is said _Immanes_, for, not good. Some other suppose, that soules separated from the bodies, were called after this name: Wherby we sée the auncient monuments of tumbes haue bene dedicated to _Diis Manibus_, to the infernall gods: In the which opinion =Apuleius= was, as we said a little before. There are some that iudge _Manes_, to be the very same, that the old people called _Genii_, and that there were two of these _Manes_ assigned vnto mens bodies, euen immediately after their begetting, which forsake them not whē they are dead, but continue in the graues after the bodies are consumed. For the which cause, those men who defaced Monuments, were thought to doo wrong vnto the gods called _Manes_. The soothsayers called as well the celestiall as the infernall gods by the name of _Manes_, and that because they beléeued (as =Festus= doth write) that all things did _manare_, that is, were deriued from them. Other thinke they were so called _à manando_, of flowing, because the places betwéen the circle of the Moone and the earth, from whence they come, are full of soules. [Sidenote: Maniæ.]