. or burials, and personsmight there either buy or hire those a person undertaking the burial of a per-son (an undertaker) was called libitinarius, andhis business libitina; hence the expression libi-tinam exercere, or facere, and libitina funeri-bus non sufficiebat ( they could not all beburied). (Val. Max. v. 2, 10; Liv. xl. 19, ; Hor. Od. iii. 30, Sat. ii. 6, 19; Juv. xii. 121;Mart. viii. 43, x. 97.) According to an oldregulation ascribed to Servius Tullius, partlyintended to secure a register of deaths, it
. or burials, and personsmight there either buy or hire those a person undertaking the burial of a per-son (an undertaker) was called libitinarius, andhis business libitina; hence the expression libi-tinam exercere, or facere, and libitina funeri-bus non sufficiebat ( they could not all beburied). (Val. Max. v. 2, 10; Liv. xl. 19, ; Hor. Od. iii. 30, Sat. ii. 6, 19; Juv. xii. 121;Mart. viii. 43, x. 97.) According to an oldregulation ascribed to Servius Tullius, partlyintended to secure a register of deaths, it wasordained that for every person who died, a pieceof money should be deposited in the temple ofLibitina. Thus money was called lucar Libi-tinae, and hence Horace (Sat. ii. 6, 19) callsthe unhealthy autumn quaestus Libitinae.(Dionys. iv. 19 ; Suet. Ner. 39 ; Diet, of Lucar.) Libo, Scribomus, a plebeian family. 1. L.,tribune of the plebs, 149, accused Ser. Sul-picius Galba on account of the outrages whichhe had committed against the Coin of the Scribonian , head ol Fortuna; LIBO BONEVENT (Bonus Even-tus); rev., PUTEAL SCRIBON ; an altar-like puteal withlyres and wreath, below which some trace a pair of;tongs as symbol of Vulcan, god of lightning. [Galba, No. 6.] It was perhaps this Libo whoconsecrated the Puteal Scribonianum or Pit-teal Libonis, of which we so frequently read inancient writers. The Puteal was an enclosedplace in the Forum, near the Arcus Fabianus,and was so called from its being open at thetop, like a puteal or well. It was dedicated invery ancient times, because the spot had beenstruck by lightning; it was subsequently re-paired and re-dedicated by Libo, who erected inits neighbourhood a tribunal for the praetor, inconsequence of which the place was frequentedby persons who had lawsuits, such as money-lenders and the like. (Comp. Hor. Sat. ii. 6, 35,Epist. i. 19, 8.) It appears on the coins of theScribonian Gens.—2. L., th
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