Robīgo

, or Rubīgo , a godde at Rome, particularly worshipped by husbandmen, as she presided over corn. Her festivals, called Robigalia , were celebrated on the 25th of April, and incense was offered to her, as also the entrails of a sheep and of a dog. She was intreated to preserve the corn from blights. Ovid , Fasti , bk. 4 , li. 911 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 151 .— Varro , de Lingua Latina , bk. 5 ; de Re Rustic a , bk. 1 , ch. 1 .