Lewis Short
mĕphītis | Mĕphītis, is | Mĕfi-tis (noun F.f) :
* A noxious, pestilential exhalation from the ground, mephitis.
* Lit.: saevamque exhalat opaca mephitim,Verg. A. 7, 84: sulphureae,Pers. 3, 99.
* Personified: (), , , a goddess who averts pestilential exhalations, Tac. H. 3, 34; Plin. 2, 93, 95, § 208; Inscr. Orell. 1795; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 7, 84: lucus Mephitis,Varr. L. L. 5, 7, § 49 Müll.: aedes, Paul. ex Fest. 351, 3.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary