Libitina

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

Libitīna ae, f

the goddess of corpses (in her temple were kept the funeral apparatus and the registries of death): acerba, H.—The apparatus of funerals: pestilentia tanta erat ut Libitina vix sufficeret, i. e. the dead could hardly be buried, L. —Death: vitare Libitinam, H., Iu.