Meaning of libum | Babel Free

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a cake or pancake, made of meal and milk or oil and spread with honey, such as was offered to the gods, especially on a birthday

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“lībum nātāle”

birthday cake

“Nōmine ab auctōris dūcunt lībāmina nōmen lībaque, quod sānctīs pars datur inde focīs. Libations and cakes draw their names from the name of their inventor, because a portion of them is being offered upon the sacred hearths. (Ovid credits the god Liber, or Bacchus, with the origin of ancient sacred ritual practices, such as offering a lībāmen (“libation”) and a lībum (“cake”). For another likely link to Liber’s name – and the Latin lībō – see also the Greek λείβω (leíbō, “to pour”).)”

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