See LUTETIA.
LUNA: Destruction by the Northmen.
See NORMANS: A. D. 849-860.
LUND, Battle of (1676).
See SCANDINAVIAN STATES (SWEDEN): A. D. 1644-1697.
LUNDY, Benjamin, and the rise of the Abolitionists.
See SLAVERY, NEGRO: A. D. 1828-1832.
LUNDY'S LANE, Battle of.
See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A. D. 1814 (JULY-SEPTEMBER).
LUNEBURG, Duchy of.
See SAXONY: THE OLD DUCHY;
and A. D. 1178-1183.
LUNEBURG HEATH, Battle of (A. D. 880).
See EBBSDORF.
LUNEVILLE, The Treaty of (1801).
See GERMANY: A. D. 1801-1803.
LUPERCAL.
LUPERCALIA.
The Lupercal was the wolf cave in which, according to Roman
legend, the twins, Romulus and Remus, were nursed by a
she-wolf. It was supposed to be situated at the foot of the
Palatine Hill. "The Lupercal is described by Dionysius as
having once been a large grotto, shaded with thick bushes and
large trees, and containing a copious spring of water. This
grotto was dedicated to Lupercus, an ancient Latin pastoral
divinity, who was worshipped by shepherds as the protector of
their flocks against wolves. A festival was held every year,
on the 15th of February, in the Lupercal, in honour of
Lupercus; the place contained an altar and a grove sacred to
the god. … Gibbon tells us the festival of the Lupercalia,
whose origin had preceded the foundation of Rome, was still
celebrated in the reign of Anthemus, 472 A.D."
_H. M. Westropp,
Early and Imperial Rome,
page 35._
"At the Lupercalia youths ran through the streets dressed
in goats' skins, beating all those they met with
strips of goats' leather."
_W. Ihne,
History of Rome,
book 1, chapter 13._