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.
II. Transf.
A. 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.—
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.
