Veneralia

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The Veneralia were in the Roman religion , the on April 1st celebrated festival in honor of Venus Verticordia ( "charioteer of Hearts").

The worship of the deity Fortuna Virilis was also part of the festivities.

In Rome women ritually washed the decorations on the statues of the gods and decorated them with flowers themselves. The women themselves bathed in the public baths of Rome that day with myrtle wreaths on their heads. It was a day when women sought divine help in their love life.

See also

• Aphrodisia

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• Plutarch , Quaestiones Romanae 45. ( available online )
• Kalendarium Romanum sub Imp. Constantio Constantini Magni filio, circa annum Christi CCCLIV . compositum & Valentino cuidam dedicatum. In: Johann Georg Graevius (Ed.), Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum. Volume 8, Trajecti ad Rhenum 1698, p. 98. ( available online )