Happy Lupercalia to everyone!

I know its technically tomorrow, but its all associated with the same festival.

As Plutarch put it...

"Lupercalia, of which many write that it was anciently celebrated by shepherds, and has also some connection with the Arcadian Lycaea. At this time 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."

I am contemplating whether to run round the lab naked and wieldng a shaggy thong....