You can make 150 anagrams from letters in lemures (eelmrsu).
From Latin, dating back to 1545-55; See origin at lemur
Philosophy, never fit for the people, had entered the best houses, and the image of Epicurus had taken the place of the lemures.
And, methinketh, a dishonest man will have sundrie frights from the Lares and lemures.
Other spirits, the lemures and Larvæ, more nearly correspond to our ghosts.
These ideas are older than our science, for the name, lemures, given them means "ghosts."
For it was uncertain whether the paternal Manes were good spirits, Lares, or evil spirits, and lemures.
If neglected they became spiteful, and were then known as lemures.
I had read of banshees, lemures and leprechauns; they were the ghosts and the fairies of ignorance but they were not like this.
Apuleius, however, is wholly uncritical, and the distinction between Larvæ and lemures is certainly not borne out by facts.
There is, however, some confusion even among the ancients themselves, as to the respective qualities of the larvæ and lemures.
Their hypothetical common ancestor, the Archipithecus, may have descended directly or indirectly from a branch of the lemures.