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Lupercalia   Listen
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Lupercalia  n. pl.  (Rom. Antiq.) A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan.






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... to these causes of offence the insult offered to the tribunes. It was the festival of the Lupercalia,[592] about which many writers say that it was originally a festival of the shepherds and had also some relationship to the Arcadian Lykaea. On this occasion many of the young nobles and magistrates run through the city without their toga, and for sport and to make laughter strike ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch



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