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Lupercal

also: the Lupercal

The cave-shrine at the foot of the Palatine in Rome, sacred to Faunus/Lupercus and the legendary den of the she-wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus. Cicero uses it as a byword for prime, expensive Roman real estate when comparing it to Velia (Fam. 7.20).

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