A few notes and additional vocabulary related to some of the words that were in this post:
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[i] umbra, -ae [1/f]: [i] shadow; shade [ii] ghost
Image #1: A form of it is used in the Mediaeval song O
Fortuna that describes fate as:
obumbrāta et vēlāta │ shadowed (darkened /
obscured) and veiled
[ii] In the plural it refers to the “shades” of the
Underworld. From the Aeneid:
Image#2: vel Pater omnipotēns adigat mē fulmine ad umbrās, /
pallentīs umbrās Erebī noctemque profundam │ or may the all-powerful Father
drive me with his thunderbolt to the shades (shadows) / to the pale ghosts and
deep night of Erebus*
*Erebus, -ī [2/m]: Erebus, the Latin equivalent of Anc. Gk. Ἔρεβος (Érebos), the God of
Darkness, “the Son of Chaos”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Erebus
[iii] lemurēs, -um [3/m/pl]: spirits of the dead; ghosts
[iv] mānēs, -ium [3/m/pl]: the souls and spirits of the
dead; this is the word used on gravestones
18.09.24: Remembering a soldier
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19.03.24: tombstone for Bodicacia
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Image #3: DIS MANIBUS (to the spirits of the departed; often
abbreviated to D.M.)
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