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The Latin word "'Libertas'", meaning "liberty", is generally referred to the Roman mythology. 'Libertas' was the goddess of liberty. There have been found Libertas temples on the Palatine Hill and Aventine Hill, two of the Seven hills of Rome on which ancient Rome was built. A modern, and purely symbolic, representation of the deity^[1], is the famous Statue of Liberty (Enlightening the World)[1], which stands on Liberty Island in New York harbor. She is also depicted on the Swiss 5, 10 and 20 Rappen coins (see image]].
'Libertas' has also been used in a number of prominent contexts:

★ 'Libertas' has been used as the motto and an ancient symbol of the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). The 'Libertas' Flag, based on secondary flag of the Republic of Ragusa, is flown in the old city of Dubrovnik today.

★ 'Libertas praestantissimum donum' is the title of Pope Leo XIII's 1888 statement saying that freedom is the greatest gift of God. This papal statement reversed Pope Gregory XVI's condemnation of freedom as a disease that a good Christian could not hate enough.

★ 'Libertas' was the well known motto of the Italian political party Democrazia Cristiana.

★ 'Libertas' was a name given to those who acted in some manner to liberate others.

★ 'Libertas' was a Norwegian liberal think tank, founded in 1947 to defend political and economic freedom against infringements of individual liberty by the social democratic regime.

★ 'Nova Libertas' is also the name of a Flemish libertarian thinktank based in Leuven, Belgium.

★ 'Libertas' was the original name of the South African President's Home in Pretoria, designed by Gerhard Moerdijk. It has now been renamed Mahlamba Ndlopfu.

★ 'Libertas' (Latin: Freedom) is the name of an historic farm near Stellenbosch, South Africa. It belonged to Adam Tas, who had accused officials of the Dutch East India Company of corruption. After his release from jail, Tas also named his farmhouse ''Libertas'', and claimed it meant "Tas is Free!"