ANGERONA, in Mythology, the name of a Pagan deity whom the Romans prayed to for the cure of the quinsy, in Latin angina. Pliny calls her the goddess of silence and calmness of mind, who banishes all uneasiness and melancholy. She is represented with her mouth covered, to denote patience and refraining from complaints. Her statue was set up, and sacrificed to, in the temple of the goddess Voluptas, to show
Angerona. show that a patient enduring of affliction leads to pleasure.
Angerona. II. Angheria. ANGERONALIA, in antiquity, solemn feasts held by the Romans on the 21st of December, in honour of Angerona, or Angeronia, the goddess of patience and silence. Festus and Julius Modestus, quoted by Macrobii, Saturn. lib. i. cap. 10. derive the name from angina, "quinsy;" and suppose the goddess to have been thus denominated, because she presided over that disease. — Others suppose it formed from angor, "grief, pain;" to intimate that she gave relief to those afflicted therewith. — Others deduce it from angeo, "I press, I close," as being reputed the goddess of silence, &c.