Manes

In his mouth he carries black beans -- always a chthonic symbol -- which he spits out nine times without looking round, saying, as he does so, 'With these I redeem me and mine': he washes again, and clanks brass vessels together; nine times he repeats the formula, 'depart, Manes of our fathers' (no doubt using the dignified title Manes euphemistically), and then finally turns round.

The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

Come, wife, cook three measures of beans, adding to them a little wheat, and give us some figs. Syra! call Manes off the fields, it's impossible to prune the vine or to align the ridges, for the ground is too wet to-day.

Peace 2000

Come, wife, cook three measures of beans, adding to them a little wheat, and give us some figs. Syra! call Manes off the fields, 'tis impossible to prune the vine or to align the ridges, for the ground is too wet to-day.

Peace 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Two vessels were hung from the extremities of the beam so as to balance; beneath these two other and larger dishes were placed and filled with water, and in the middle of each a brazen figure, called Manes, was stood.

Peace 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

The Manes were the spirits of the departed, and were of two kinds, viz.,

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

Ennead and Menés, it intercalated one or more lines of Theban or Thinite kings; but these were of so formless, shadowy, and undefined an aspect, that they were called Manes, and there was attributed to them at most only a passive existence, as of persons who had always been in the condition of the dead, and had never been subjected to the trouble of passing through life.

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881

And they have worked overtime to insure that juvenile criminals such as Manes can buy firearms when they are adults.

Outgunned PETER HARRY BROWN DANIEL G. ABEL 2003

First, because even as the truth of the human nature of Christ would not have been maintained had His body been an imaginary one, such as Manes supposed, so likewise it would not have been maintained if we supposed, as did Valentine, that it was a heavenly body.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

Moreover, the Sun is now Indra; the Manes are the seasons, and Varuna, too, is the seasons, as being the year (_Çat.

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

It was different with Donald Manes, the late Queens Borough President, who always seemed to be a rascal, although he was not known as a thief.

Henry J. Stern: Betrayal of the Public Trust Henry J. Stern 2010