Lupercal
Lupercal, a grotto on the Palatine Hill, sacred to the Lycean Pan
Lupercal , cālis, n.: the Lupercal, a cave on the Palatine at Rome, sacred to Lupercus or Pan, 8.343.
Lŭpercal, ālis, n. [Lupercalis],
- a grotto on the Palatine Hill, sacred to the Lycean Pan (Lupercus): gelidā monstrat sub rupe Lupercal, Verg. A. 8, 342; v. Serv. ad loc.: quamquam Velia non est vilior quam Lupercal, Cic. Fam. 7, 20, 1: forsitan et quaeras cur sit locus ille Lupercal, Ov. F. 2, 381.—Hence,
- A Lŭpercālis, e, adj., of or belonging to the Lupercalia, Lupercal: sacrum, Suet. Aug. 31.—
- B Hence, plur. as subst.: Lŭpercālĭa, ĭum and ōrum, n., the festival of the Lycean Pan (Lupercus), celebrated in February, in which the priests (Luperci), with their faces painted and only a girdle about their loins (cinctuti, Ov. F. 5, 101), ran about the city striking the women whom they met, a ceremony supposed to make them fruitful: ad Lupercalia, Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 87; 2, 33, 84: hodierni diei res gestas Lupercalibus habebis, id. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 4; cf. Ov. F. 2, 267 sqq.; Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 343.
Lupercal, ālis, Abl. ālī, n. (Lupercus), I) mit dem Zusatz ludicrum, od. im Plur. Lupercālia, ium, n., das Fest des lycäischen Pan (Lupercus), das im Februar gefeiert wurde, Liv. 1, 5, 1: Plur. Varro LL. 5, 85; 6, 13. Cic. Phil. 2, 84 u. 87 a. – II) eine dem lycäischen Pan heilige Grotte am palatinischen Berge, Cic. ep. 7, 20, 1. Verg. Aen. 8, 343 u.a.
Lŭpercăl, (14) ālis, n. (Lupercus), Lupercal [grotte sous le mont Palatin, dédiée à Pan par Évandre, où dʼaprès la légende la louve nourrit Romulus et Rémus] : Cic. Fam. 7, 20, 1 ; Virg. En. 8, 342.
Lupercal ālis, n
- Lupercus, a grotto on the Palatine Hill, sacred to the Lycean Pan, V., C., O.—The festival of the Lycean Pan, L.—Usu. plur: ad Lupercalia.
Lupercal
A cave at the foot of the Palatine Hill, consecrated by Evander to the god Pan, who was identified with Lupercus by the Latins, as protecting the flocks from wolves (lupos arcens) ( ad Aen. viii. 343). See Lupercalia.