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Angerona is indeed Roman. She was rumored to have relieved men from their pain and sorrow, or delivered the Romans and their flocks from angina (quinsy aka a recognized complication of tonsillitis). She was a protecting goddess of Rome and the keeper of the sacred name of the city. Modern scholars regard her as a goddess akin to Ops, Acca Larentia, and Dea Dia; or as the goddess of the new year and the returning sun. Her festival was called Divalia or Angeronalia, was celebrated on the 21st of December. The priests offered sacrifice in the temple of Volupia, the goddess of pleasure, in which stood a statue of Angerona, with a finger on her mouth, which was bound and closed. In art, she is depicted with a bandaged mouth and a finger pressed to her lips, demanding silence.