Lupercus
Americannoun
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"We all took them for Rufinus and Lupercus," the head huntsman rejoined.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White
When there was a feast, all of these various kinds of families learned something of the worship of Mars, or Maia Dia, or Saturn, or Pales, or Lupercus.
From The Childhood of Rome by Louise Lamprey
The same writer also says that the Pope tried to abolish it in the fifth century, but he succeeded only in sending it down to us in the name of St. Valentine instead of Lupercus.
From Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas by Various
On the fifteenth of February, when in that warm clime spring was beginning to open the buds, the shepherds celebrated a feast in honor of Lupercus.
From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman
It records the name of a Roman knight, Sufenas, who had held the office of Lupercus and had been a fellow of the Neapolitan phratria of Antinous—fretriaco Neapoli Antinoiton et Eunostidon.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
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