GHOST Copy link • GHOSTspectrum (denotes the apparition of a departed spirit, as a supernatural appearance): mostellum (diminutive from monstrum, as a horrible apparition): manes (as the apparition of a good spirit): lemures (as that of a hobgoblin). Anybody’s ghost walks, non manes ejus conquiescunt viri (Liv., 21, 10; ☞ Liv., 3, 58, extr.). To believe in ghosts [Vid: to BELIEVE in]. To give up the ghost, animam agere, edere, efflare (Cic.), emittere, deponere (Nep.); extremum vitae spiritum edere (Cic.).