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  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1270 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On this page: Viridomarus – Viridovix – Viriplaca – Virius Lupus – Virtus – Viscellfnus
VIRIPLACA, "the goddess who soothes the anger of man," was a surname of Juno, describing her as the restorer of peace between married people.
She had a sanctuary on the Palatine, into which women went when they thought them­selves wronged by their husbands.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3604.html   (1004 words)

  
 Green-Gold Serenity:Juno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
During the wedding celebration the groom's doorposts were annointed, and the bride's garments were untied in a ritual honoring Juno.
As Juno Viriplaca, She restored calm and peacefulness to couples who were torn apart by anger and disputes.
She even had a sanctuary on the Palatine for wives who had been wronged by their husbands.
hometown.aol.com /eeluna/Juno.html   (621 words)

  
 Chapter Idea Of The Roman Jurisprudence. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
Insufficient remedies followed with distant and tardy steps the rapid progress of the evil.
The ancient worship of the Romans afforded a peculiar goddess to hear and reconcile the complaints of a married life; but her epithet of Viriplaca, the appeaser of husbands, too clearly indicates on which side submission and repentance were always expected.
Every act of a citizen was subject to the judgment of the censors; the first who used the privilege of divorce assigned, at their command, the motives of his conduct; and a senator was expelled for dismissing his virgin spouse without the knowledge or advice of his friends.
www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25686/14.html   (718 words)

  
 History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325. | Christian Classics Ethereal ...
The wife had no legal or social protection against the infidelity of her husband.
The Romans worshipped a peculiar goddess of domestic life; but her name Viriplaca, the appeaser of husbands, indicates her partiality.
The intercourse of a husband with the slaves of his household and with public prostitutes was excluded from the odium and punishment of adultery.
www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc2.v.x.xi.html   (2199 words)

  
 Vives/The Instruction of A Christen Woman. The seconde boke of the instruction of a Christen woman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There was in olde tyme in Rome a chapell of a certayne goddes, in whiche if any disturbance had bene betwene the husbande and the wyfe at home, they spake certayne wordes what they list, and were agreed agayne.
And this goddes was named Viriplaca, that is to say, please husbande.
Whiche name [c3v] sheweth, that the husbande ought nat to study to please the wyfe, but the wyfe to please her husbande.
www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/vives/ch2.html   (13000 words)

  
 Hants Moths - 2401 Marbled Clover Heliothis viriplaca
Hants Moths - 2401 Marbled Clover Heliothis viriplaca
Notes: There are occasional records at light on or near chalk downland.
Click here for key to graph and map
www.hantsmoths.org.uk /moths/moth_2401.htm   (74 words)

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