Equestris vero ordinis iuventus omnibus annis bis urbem spectaculo sui sub magnis auctoribus celebrabat: Lupercalium enim mos a Romulo et Remo incohatus est tunc cum laetitia exsultantes, quod iis avus Numitor, rex Albanorum, eo loco ubi educati erant urbem condere permiserat sub monte Palatino, [hortatu Faustuli educatoris sui], quem Evander Arcas consecraverat, facto sacrificio caesisque capris epularum hilaritate ac vino largiore provecti, divisa pastorali turba, cincti pellibus immolatarumhostiarum obvios iocantes petiverunt.
The younger members of the equestrian order filled Rome twice annually with a showing of themselves, for which they had high authority. The custom of the Lupercalia was begun by Romulus and Remus, exultant because their grandfather Numitor, king of Alba, had given them permission to found a city in the place of their upbringing under the Palatine mountain which Evander the Arcadian had consecrated. After sacrifice and slaughter of goats, carried away by the merriment of a feast and large draughts of wine, they divided the shepherd gathering and girt with skins of immolated victims attacked in jest those they met.
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