Libitina

Finally we entered the sacred grove of Libitina, filled with cawing crows, and approached the temple.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Libitina, cranberries are available in the fall and winter in the produce department, fresh and unsweetened.

cranberry-walnut chicken salad | smitten kitchen 2008

While Euphormio is on the horseblock in the act of mounting his steed, a rustic brings him a letter from Fibullius, and in conversation gives him such an account of his bride as forces upon him the reflection, that even the grim Libitina would be preferable, as a bride, to so confirmed a Thais, so fruitful a partner, as the _protegée_ of

Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 Various

Libitina was the goddess who presided over funerals.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

So severe an epidemic broke out in the market-towns and country districts that Libitina was hardly able to supply the materials for the funerals.

The History of Rome, Vol. VI 1905

In most cursory accounts of the Roman religion it has been the practice to lay particular stress upon an immense number of "gods," as they used to be called, each of which is supposed to have presided over some particular act or suffering of the Roman from the cradle to the grave -- from Cunina, the "goddess" of his cradle, to Libitina who looked after his interment.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

At last a flash came, when they saw, after a rather long road, the mound on which stood the small temple of Libitina, and at the foot of the mound a group of mules and horses.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

Meanwhile the gloomy procession drew nearer, and halted at last in front of the temple of Libitina.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

Ye will wait for us at the small temple of Libitina.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

Offerings were made in the temples to Jove and Libitina.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881