Definition of Maes
Manes, the general name given by the Romans to the departed spirits
of good men, who are conceived of as dwelling in the nether world, and as
now and again ascending to the upper.
- Wikipedia
||Ma"nes (?), n. pl. [L.] (Rom.
Antiq.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of
dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.
Hail, O ye holy manes!
Dryden.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
MANES, n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in
a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had
exhaled were buried and burned; and they seem not to have been
particularly happy afterward.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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