god
Fortuna
Fortune
also: Fortuna
The goddess and personification of chance; Ofellus defies her power, since no one truly owns the land she shuffles among tenants.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.9 Fortune
Chance personified, dispenser of each day; count what she gives as gain.
- The Odes §1.34 Fortune
Who 'with a sharp shriek' snatches the crown from one and sets it on another.
- The Odes §1.35 O goddess who rule pleasant Antium
Fortune, worshipped at Antium, who raises and casts down mortals and empires alike.
- The Odes §2.1 the game of Fortune
Fortune, whose 'game' of rise and fall Pollio's history records.
- The Odes §3.29 Fortune
Who 'shifts her uncertain honors'; the poet praises her while she stays and lets her go when she flies.
- The Odes §4.14 Fortune
'Prosperous in the third lustrum,' she gave the war favorable issues.
- The Satires §2.2 Let Fortune rage
Fortune, goddess of chance; Ofellus shrugs at her, since the land she shuffles from owner to owner was never truly anyone's to lose.