Baronius published, from the MSS. of the Vatican, this epistle of Pope Gelasius (A.D. 496, No. 28-45), which is entitled
Adversus Andromachum Senatorem, caeterosque
Romanos, qui Lupercalia secundum morem pristinum colenda
Constituebant.
Gelasius always supposes that his adversaries are nominal Christians, and, that he may not yield to them in absurd prejudice, he imputes to this harmless festival all the calamities of the age.