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libum

libum · m

a cake, pancake

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Where it lives

De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

lībum — Lewis & Short

lībum (lībus, m., Nigid. ap. i, n.libo; cf. Varr. L. L. 4, 22,

Non. 211, 31),

I a cake, pancake of meal, made with milk or oil, and spread with honey, Cato, R. R. 75: rustica liba, Ov. F. 3, 670: adorea liba per herbam Subiciunt epulis, Verg. A. 7, 109; Ov. F. 3, 761: plena domus libis venalibus, Juv. 3, 187.—Often used in offerings to the gods: liba absoluta esse et rem divinam paratam, Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 1: suum Baccho dicemus honorem, ... et liba feremus, Verg. G. 2, 394; Tib. 1, 7, 54; 1, 10, 23; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 10: melle pater (Bacchus) fruitur, liboque infusa calenti Jure repertori candida mella damus, Ov. F. 3, 761: haec te liba, Priape, quot annis Exspectare sat est, Verg. E. 7, 33. It was customary to offer a cake to the gods on one's birthday, Juv. 16, 38.— Hence, quinquagesima liba, a cake offered to the gods on one's fiftieth birthday, Mart. 10, 24, 4.—In masc.: faciat libos quatuor, Nigid. ap. Non. 211, 31.

In the wild

libis Juvenal, Saturae 1.3.187
libum Ovid, Fasti 1.128
libum Cato, De agri cultura 84
libi Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam 6.10.6

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. libum (scan p. 380; entry #6007).

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