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Lupercal
(The), strictly speaking, meant the place where Romulus
and Remus were suckled by the wolf (lupus). A yearly festival
was held on this spot on Feb. 15, in honour of Lupercus, the god of
fertility. On one of these festivals Antony thrice offered to Julius
Cæsar a kingly crown, but seeing the people were only
half-hearted, Cæsar put it aside, saying, “Jupiter alone is king of
Rome.” Shakespeare makes Antony allude to this incident:
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown.
Which he did thrice refuse.
Julius Caesar, iii. 2.
Shakespeare calls the Lupercalia “the feast of Lupercal” (act i.
1.), and probably he means the festival in Antony's speech, not the
place where the festival was held.
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