[1] Amy Richlin characterized this goddess's religious service as "a sort of couples counseling – one-sided, judging by her name.
"[2] The husband and wife took turns speaking about what conflict had been bothering them.
[1] Dea Viriplaca's functions are thus comparable to Fortuna Virilis in her man-pleasing aspect,[3] and to Venus Obsequens and Venus Verticordia as goddesses who encouraged good marital relations.
[4] Unlike many other marriage-promoting rites for women only, but like the Matronalia, the services of Dea Viriplaca required the participation of men.
[1] Valerius Maximus writes of it as existing in his own time (the reign of Tiberius) but considers it among the instituta antiqua, an institution of the old days.