 Some sources connect the Latin word for fever ("") with the same idea of purification or purging, due to the sweating commonly seen in association with fevers.The name "Lupercalia" was believed in antiquity to evince some connection with the Ancient Greek festival of the Arcadian Lykaia, a wolf festival (, "lýkos"; ), and the worship of "Lycaean Pan", assumed to be a Greek equivalent to Faunus, as instituted by Evander.Justin describes a cult image of "the Lycaean god, whom the Greeks call Pan and the Romans Lupercus", as nude, save for a goatskin girdle.