Laverna

In old times Laverna was the Goddess of thieves, pick-pockets, and all sorts of pilferers, — a connexion of names that gave me no small satisfaction.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

Not sure if you remember me, but I asked your permission to steal Laverna art from you a couple years back for a short-lived online shrine.

Aunt Annie's Great Gift Selections Anne Johnson 2007

Oh yeah, I remember you, the person silly enough to ask permission to steal Laverna art, when She's the Goddess of Thieves.

Aunt Annie's Great Gift Selections Anne Johnson 2007

Goddess Laverna, — or, at best, all head and shoulders, like a codfish.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

"It is not wise to annoy the Great Ones, Laverna, or whatever you are calling yourself these days, now that you are a man."

Orphans of Chaos 2005

War, he relates, that the earth near the Laverna opened, and a quantity of fire came rushing out of it, shooting up with a bright flame into the heavens.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

He put this amiable weakness on record in many Latin and Italian verses, in which he addresses her as Laverna, a name more musical than flattering, if one recalls its Latin significance.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

Laverna was the presiding goddess of thieves, and of all artifice and fraud.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

Quo abis? redi rursum. ita me bene amet Laverna, uti te iam, nisi reddi mihi vasa iubes, pipulo te his differam ante aedis. quid ego nunc agam? ne ego edepol veni huc auspicio malo. nummo sum conductus: plus iam medico merce dest opus.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Carna, and Laverna, of whom late ætiological myth had its own explanation, have, in all probability, been rightly interpreted by

The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914