Lĭbĭtīna

ae, f.

libet, līber

I. the goddess of corpses, in whose temple everything pertaining to burials was sold or hired out, and where the registers of deaths were kept.
I. Lit.: triginta funerum milia in rationem Libitinae venerunt, Suet. Ner. 39.—
II. Transf.
A. The requisites for burial, the apparatus of funerals: pestilentia tanta erat ut Libitina vix sufficeret, Liv. 40, 19, 3: ne liberorum quidem funeribus Libitina sufficiebat, id. 41, 21, 6.—
2. Esp., a bier, a funeral pile: dum levis arsura struitur libitina papyro, Mart. 10, 97; Plin. 37, 3, 11, § 45.—
3. The undertaker's business, the disposal of corpses: Libitinam exercere, Val. Max. 5, 2, 10.—
B. 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.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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