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Lupercal
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Lu`per´cal
a.1.Of or pertaining to the Lupercalia.
n.1.A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.
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Andrea Carandini told a press conference yesterday that a large vaulted hall beneath the Palatine hill was almost certainly the fabled Lupercale - a sanctuary believed by ancient Romans to be the cave where the twin boys Romulus and Remus were suckled by a she-wolf.
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Or (with Macrobius) from the god Februus, because he was invoked in this month, for the processions made with the intention of purging the sins of the people; or from Juno -- "Februelle," to whom the Romans dedicated this month of Lupercales, and celebrated some funerary obits in consideration of the repose of the dead.
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