Limentinus
Roman · deity · regal · Recorded classification
Limentinus is the threshold, the stone that marks where outside stops. The Romans treated a doorway as three distinct places of danger — leaf, hinge, threshold — and gave each of them a name that could be addressed, which is exactly the habit of mind that produced Robigus for the mildew and Postvorta for the breech birth. Augustine quotes the list to ridicule it; the ridicule is why we have it.
Domains
- boundary
Relations
- ally: CardeaOne of the three powers of the doorway with Cardea and Forculus.Augustine, De civitate Dei 4.8, naming the three powers of the doorway together. (primary)
- ally: ForculusOne of the three powers of the doorway with Cardea and Forculus.Augustine, De civitate Dei 4.8. (primary)
Sources
- Limentinus is the Roman god of the threshold, named with Forculus and Cardea among the small gods of the doorway in Varro's indigitamenta as preserved by Augustine.: Augustine, De civitate Dei 4.8, on Forculus, Cardea and Limentinus. (primary)