1) Ancient Roman festival
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Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia subsumed Februa, an earlier-origin spring cleansing ritual held on the same date, which gives the month of February (Februarius) its name. The name Lupercalia ...
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• (n. pl.) A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan.
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ancient Roman festival that was conducted annually on February 15 under the superintendence of a corporation of priests called Luperci. The origins ... [4 related articles]
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Annual Roman festival of purification celebrated on 15 February. It has been associated with the Greek Lycaean Pan, god of flocks and herds (identified with the Roman
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Lu`per·ca'li·a noun plural [ Latin
luperealis , from
Lupercus the Lycean Pan, so called from
lupus a wolf, because he kept off the wolves.]
(Rom. Antiq.) A feast of the Romans in honor of Lupercus, or Pan.
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Lupercalia was the festival of the god Lupercus at ancient Rome. It was originally a festival of the shepherds, and was held on the 15th of February every year in the Lupercal on the Palantine Hill, a place which contained an altar and grove sacred to the god. here the Luperci (priests of Lupercus), on the day of the festival, sacrificed goats and ...
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Lupercalia [from lupus] Festival of Lupercus; wolf. Lupercalia is from Lupercal, the name of a grotto at the foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome. It is an ancient Roman festival with fertility rites, held on February 15 in honor of Lupercus, a pastoral god sometimes identified with Faunus. The festival started at the Lupercal where Romulus and Remus...
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an annual festival celebrated in Rome to honor Faunus, the god of fertility and forests, who was also known as Lupercus; during the Lupercalia, two goats and a dog were sacrificed and two youths, who were anointed with their blood, ran around the Palatine Hill and lashed girls with whips made from the sacrificed goats.
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Annual Roman festival of purification celebrated on 15 February. It has been associated with the Greek Lycaean Pan, god of flocks and herds (identified with the Roman Faunus), and the wolf (
lupus) who supposedly suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome. Goats and dogs were sacrificed at the Lupercal at the foot of the...
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a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
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