Libitina

Reading notes

• The Odes §3.30 Libitina

  The goddess of funerals; 'a great part of me will escape Libitina.'

• The Epistles §2.1 Libitina

  Goddess of corpses and funerals, at whose temple undertakers' gear was kept; 'the harvest of cruel Libitina' is the toll of the sickly autumn season.

• The Satires §2.6 cruel Libitina

  Goddess of funerals, at whose temple undertakers' equipment was kept; 'the harvest of Libitina' is the death-toll of the unhealthy autumn.