The Devil's Dictionary: Manes

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
MAN
MANICHEISM

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.

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