The Lemures, restless and vengeful shades who escape the underworld to haunt the living, remain subjects of Pluto's dark kingdom even as they wander above ground, bound to return to his realm.
After Romulus killed Remus, the slain twin's restless shade haunted the living. The Romans instituted the Lemuria festival — originally 'Remuria' according to Ovid and Varro — to placate Remus's ghost and all the wandering dead it had joined among the Lemures.
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