[conspire] Seasonal observance

[olanna at gmail.com]

And I was simply glad to be almost free from vertigo.  :)

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Tony Godshall <togo at of.net> wrote:

> and don't forget to start with your salted mealcakes, prepared by the
> Vestal Virgins.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> > Happy Lupercalia!
> >
> > To better uphold tradition on this day of feasting and purification, you
> > should arrange for your priests to sacrifice a male goat and a dog, hold
> > the obvious sacrificial feast, and cut the victims' skin into thongs,
> > and, then you should, naked or near naked, run counterclockwise around
> > Palatine Hill as Plutarch describes:
> >
> >   Many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down
> >   through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they
> >   meet with shaggy thongs.  And many women of rank also purposely get in
> >   their way, and like children at school present their hands to be
> >   struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped in delivery,
> >   and the barren to pregnancy.
> >
> > See?  Think of the children.
> >
> >
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