* One of the three days of the Feast of the Lemures.

* One of the three days of the Feast of the Lemures.

Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fasti, the six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays and religious customs.

Lemures may represent the wandering and vengeful spirits of those not afforded proper burial, funeral rites or affectionate cult by the living: they are not attested by tomb or votive inscriptions.

Lemures were formless and liminal, associated with darkness and its dread.

The head of household ( paterfamilias ) would rise at midnight and cast black beans behind him with averted gaze ; the Lemures were presumed to feast on them.

The Anthesteria also have aspects of a festival of the dead who freely roamed the city, comparable to the Roman Feast of the Lemures, the expulsion of ancestral ghosts: compare All Souls ' Night and carnival.

Wissowa listed 33 di indigetes, including two collectives in the plural, the Lares of the estate and the Lemures of the dead.

They were associated with the Lares, Lemures, Genii, and Di Penates as deities ( di ) that pertained to domestic, local, and personal cult.

Their supposed underworld relatives, the malicious and vagrant Lemures, might be placated with midnight offerings of black beans and spring water.

The name " Larva " is taken from Roman mythology, which like " Lemures " refers to a restless spirit of the dead.

If, as Ovid proposes, the lemures are an unsatiated, malevolent and wandering form of Lares, then they and their mother also find their way into Lemuralia, when the hungry Lemures gather in Roman houses and claim cult from the living.

He must have been inspired by the taxonomic work of Linnaeus and the Bibliothtecae of Albrecht von Haller.

Modern Christian hymns have been inspired by the words of the prophet Habakkuk.

Pixar created a 3D zoetrope inspired by Ghibli's for its touring exhibition, which first showed at the Museum of Modern Art and features characters from Toy Story.

In modern culture, Agelasta inspired the title of a documentary by Philippos Koutsaftis ( Φίλιππος Κουτσαφτής ), called Agelastos Petra-Αγέλαστος Πέτρα " smile-less stone " ( 2000 ) on Modern Eleusis.

The Epic of Gilgamesh has inspired many works of literature, art, music, as Theodore Ziolkowski points out in his book Gilgamesh Among Us: Modern Encounters With the Ancient Epic ( 2011 ).

Visually This Modern World draws inspiration from a retro, 1950s sensibility, with brightly colored illustrations that are also inspired by clip art.

Northern Irish progressive rock band Fruupp included a song called Gormenghast, inspired by the novels, on their fourth and final album Modern Masquerades, released in 1975.

It comes from the Modern Latin fanaticus, meaning " insanely but divinely inspired ".

* Christie's Hong Kong, November 2009 sale of Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, sold a work by Fu Baoshi titled " Landscape inspired by Dufu's Poetic Sentiments ", for HK $ 60, 020, 000 ( US $ 7, 780, 105 ) – a world record for the artist.

The sound of the album, which Nicky referred to as his " nihilistic anti-everything album ", was inspired by, among others, Neu !, The Plastic Ono Band, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Modern Lovers, Richard Thompson and Lou Reed.

Several critics have pointed to grammatical errors in the Early Modern English style of the Book of Mormon and made the argument that because the first edition of the Book of Mormon contained hundreds of grammatical errors ( removed in later editions ), the book was therefore fabricated by J. Smith and not divinely inspired.

Starting from the album Musique, however, Theatre of Tragedy made drastic changes to its style, which became significantly inspired by the industrial rock genre, abandoning Early Modern English writing and death grunts in the process.

( Style Council leader Paul Weller claims the song was inspired by the Swingle Singers ' 1966 album with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Place Vendôme ).

Considered the " Father of Modern architecture " in the Netherlands and the intermediary between the Traditionalists and the Modernists, Berlage's theories inspired most Dutch architectural groups of the 1920s, including the Traditionalists, the Amsterdam School, De Stijl and the New Objectivists.

Influenced by fellow student Malcolm Garrett, who had begun designing for the Manchester punk group, the Buzzcocks, and by Herbert Spencer's Pioneers of Modern Typography, Saville was inspired by Jan Tschichold, chief propagandist for the New Typography.

Furthermore, the scholar Tao Hongjing 陶弘景 ( 456-536 AD ) recorded in the Gujin Daojianlu ( 古今刀劍錄, " A Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Sabers and Rapiers ") that Guan Yu forged a pair of sabres using iron ore he harvested from Wudushan mountain ( 武都山 ) himself, which may have inspired the story that Guan Yu invented his weapon.

Howard also inspired Shelley's poem " The Cloud " and informed John Constable's paintings and studies of skies and the writings and art of John Ruskin, who used Howard's cloud classification in his criticisms of landscape paintings in Modern Painters.

Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron's to produce The Vampyre, the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre.

She unveiled “ 2056 ”, her second collection, a Modern 40 ’ s inspired theme with an Asian futuristic twist, at LA Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in fall 2006, and she has gone on to sell to boutiques across the country.

She also inspired Kentucky painter Thomas Satterwhite Noble's 1867 painting, The Modern Medea ; Medea was a woman in Greek mythology who killed her own children.

His " Winchester " series, inspired by the story of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House, was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005.

Modern scholars have recognized his influence on later writers, such as the Tang dynasty ( 618-906 ) poet Li Bai ( 701-762 ), who was inspired by images of transcendence and reclusion.

Modern Indian art typically shows the influence of Western styles, but is often inspired by Indian themes and images.

There are good examples of art deco buildings ( particularly some of the flats ), and many of the large houses in the 1930s were good examples of the Modern style inspired by the work of Le Corbusier ( Chipkin 1993 ).

Modern competitive clogging, also called precision clogging, is inspired by traditional styles but performed to a wide variety of music, including bluegrass, modern country, rock music, pop, and hip hop.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

The idea of being " born again in Christ " inspired some common European forenames: French René / Renée ( also used in the Netherlands ), Dutch Renaat / Renate, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Renato / Renata, Latin Renatus / Renata, which all mean " reborn ", " born again ".

He may have also been inspired by the Latin or English translation of a book by the Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Tufail, who was known as " Abubacer " in Europe.

Divination ( from Latin divinare " to foresee, to be inspired by a god ", related to divinus, divine ) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic standardized process or ritual.

Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.

Divination, a part of many religions is derived from the Latin divinare " to foresee, to be inspired by a god " and as a part of divination comes alectryomancy, which means rooster and divination respectively, with the intent of communication between the gods and man in which the diviner observes a cock, pecking at grain, with Judaism forbidding acts of divination in the Hebrew Bible.

He named the sequences for a Celtic tribe of Wales, the Silures, inspired by his friend Adam Sedgwick, who had named the period of his study the Cambrian, the Latin name for Wales.

* In 741 and 744, documents in the archives of St. Gallen Abbey describe the village of Kempraten as Centoprato, another document in 863 as Centiprata, inspired by the Latin name Centum Prata.

* In 741 and 744, documents in the archives of St. Gallen Abbey describe the village of Kempraten as Centoprato, another document in 863 as Centiprata, inspired by the Latin name Centum Prata.

Hippies often chose brightly-colored clothing and wore unusual styles, such as bell-bottom pants, vests, tie-dyed garments, dashikis, peasant blouses, and long, full skirts ; non-Western inspired clothing with Native American, Asian, Indian, African and Latin American motifs were also popular.

The Latin inscription on the reverse of the medallion — firmitas, utilitas, venustas ( English: durability, utility, and beauty )— is inspired by Roman architect Vitruvius.

It is possible that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island.

The film also inspired Chilean cartoonist René Ríos Boettiger to create Condorito, one of Latin America's most ubiquitous cartoon characters.

However, since he spent much time in the Netherlands, his choice of the national languages rather than Latin may have been inspired by the tradition started by the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin.

A nocturne ( from the French which meant nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus ) is usually a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night.

Avitus inspired the young Theodoric to study Latin poets.

" Jorge Luis Borges inspired and encouraged other Latin American writers in the development of magical realism-particularly with his first magical realist publication, Historia universal de la infamia in 1935 .< ref > Flores, Angel.

Holberg let himself be inspired by old Latin comedies and newer French comedies he had seen in Paris, and street theaters in Rome.

Similar abbreviations, inspired by Latin, applies for a large number of educations, such as sociology ( cand. scient. soc ), economics ( cand. merc., cand. polit.

Saadia Gaon, David ben Merwan al-Mukkamas, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas, to name a few, knew of at least some of the Mutazilite work, particularly Avicennism and Averroism, and the Renaissance and the use of empirical methods were inspired at least in part by Arabic translations of Greek, Jewish, Persian and Egyptian works translated into Latin during the Renaissance of the 12th century, and taken during the Reconquista in 1492.

Partly inspired by Antonio Gramsci's interpretation of culture, the seminal theatre practitioner Augusto Boal developed a series of techniques known as the Theatre of the Oppressed from his work developing community theatre in Latin America.

Her pseudonym was inspired by her family motto " Deo, non fortuna " ( Latin for " by God, not fate "), originally the ancient motto of the Barons & Earls Digby.

A large number of spells are drawn from or inspired by Latin, and have a certain resonance with English speakers.