Libentina

Libentina, Lubentina, or Lubentia, a surname of Venus among the Romans, by which she is described as the goddess of sexual pleasure (dea libidinis).

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References

Sources

  • Arnobius. Adversus Nationes i, p. 15, who however speaks of Libentini dii.
  • Augustine. City of God iv, 8.
  • Cicero. On the Nature of the Gods ii, 23.
  • Nonius, i, 324.
  • Plautus. Asinaria ii, 2.2.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Varro. On the Latin Language v, 6.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.