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Libentina, Lubentina

or LUBENTIA, a surname of Venus among the Romans, by which she is described as the goddess of sexual pleasure (dea libidinis, Varr. de Ling. Lat. 5.6; Cic. de Nat. Deor. 2.23; August. de Civ. Dei, 4.8; Nonius, 1.324; Plaut. Asin. 2.2. 2; Arnob. ad v. Gent. i. p. 15, who however speaks of Libentini dii.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.