Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Lupercus or to the Lupercalia.
- noun Same as
Lupercalia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Lupercalia.
- noun A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.
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Examples
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Hence the place where he was worshipped was called lupercal, and his festival lupercalia, which was celebrated in February, at which the luperci ran up and down the city naked, having only a girdle of goat skin round their waists, and thongs of the same in their hands, with which they struck those they met.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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Link dragonfly, good stuff … lol now you made me spill water on my laptop. but hey funny stuff you got there — lupercal
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They say, that the festival of the lupercal, as now celebrated, was even at that time solemnized on the Palatine hill, which, from
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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