noun

Lĭbĭtīna

gen. Lĭbĭtīnae · gender feminine · decl. 1st

libet, līber

the goddess of corpses, in whose temple everything pertaining to burials was sold or hired out, and where the registers of deaths were kept

the goddess of corpses, in whose temple everything pertaining to burials was sold or hired out, and where the registers of deaths were kept.

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Lit.: triginta funerum milia in rationem Libitinae venerunt, were registered, Suet. Ner. 39.—

by extension

The requisites for burial, the apparatus of funerals •

The requisites for burial, the apparatus of funerals: pestilentia tanta erat ut Libitina vix sufficeret, i. e. it was hardly possible to bury all the dead, Liv. 40, 19, 3: ne liberorum quidem funeribus Libitina sufficiebat, id. 41, 21, 6.—

a bier, a funeral pile •

Esp., a bier, a funeral pile: dum levis arsura struitur libitina papyro, Mart. 10, 97; Plin. 37, 3, 11, § 45.—

The undertaker's business, the disposal of corpses •

The undertaker's business, the disposal of corpses: Libitinam exercere, Val. Max. 5, 2, 10.—

Death poetic •

Death (poet.): multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam, Hor. C. 3, 30, 6; cf. id. S. 2, 6, 19: Libitinam evadere, Juv. 14, 122; Phaedr. 4, 18 fin.

Perseus ID: n26498 Key: Libitina