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==Sodales Luperci== The Luperci ("Wolfmen" Priests who officiate at the Lupercalia) were responsible for pu

...mulus and the Sabines of Titus Tatius, just as there were two companies of Luperci and two companies of Salii. Were that the case we might expect that She onc

...percalia's importance. Records indicate that Mark Antony was master of the Luperci College of Priests. He chose the Lupercalia festival of the year 44BC as th ...s a festival of purification and fertility. Each year on February 15, the Luperci priests gathered on Palantine Hill at the cave of Lupercal. Vestal virgins

...tion and support during these three days. Thanks for the support that your Luperci and sacerdotes brought us! Mater Lupa, you may go back your Lupercal and ge

Luperci in ancient times, has been received from Quaestor M. Hortensia

...og and there was an offering of Mola Salsa, the Vestals' sacred cakes. The Luperci clothed themselves with parts of the skins of the goats and ran with some o

Why, you ask, do the Luperci run, and since it's their custom, the place, and the place gave their name to the Luperci. Great is the

*'''[[Luperci|LUPERCI]]''' (pl) (sg ''lupercus'') ...the Lupercalia, the fertility festival dedicated to the god Lupercus. The Luperci sacrificed goats and dogs to Lupercus, and later ran through the city, half

...his temple) his feast, the Lupercalia, was celebrated. Priests (called the Luperci) wearing goat skins walked through the streets of Rome and hit the spectato :The Roman god of agriculture and shepherds, also an epithet of Faunus. The Luperci sacrificed two goats and a dog on the festival of the Lupercalia, celebrate

...Sabine, element of the Roman state, just as there were two colleges of the Luperci, namely, the Fabii and the Quinctilii, the former of whom seem to have belo

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