Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Libitina

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LIBITI'NA. The goddess in whose temple all the apparatus and paraphernalia required for furnishing out a funeral were kept; whence the word is used in a more general sense for the funereal apparatus (Liv. xl. 19. xli. 21.); for the bier (lectus funebris) upon which a corpse was carried (Mart. x. 97. Plin. H. N. xxxvii. 11. § 2.); and for the trade of an undertaker (Val. Max. v. 2. 10.).