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Lupercalia- the fertility rites started at the Lupercal where Romulus and Remus were suckled by a she-wolf. Goats and dogs are sacrificed to Faunus, while young men dressed in goat-skins run around the base of the Palatine hill.
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Feralia- the rites to appease the souls of the dead. Dinners are carried to the tombs of the dead.
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bissextilis is not a holiday but is the day added every four years during the leap year.
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Regifugium was the flight of the king and is held to celebrate the
expulsion of Tarquinius
Superbus from Rome.
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