Plutarch's Romane Questions · Plutarch
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_Why doe the Romans honour and worship Fortune, by the name of_ Primigenia, _which a man may interpret First begotten or first borne_? IS it for that (as some say) _Servius_ being by chance borne of a maid-servant and a captive, had Fortune so favourable unto him, that he reigned nobly and gloriously, king at _Rome_? For most Romans are of this opinion. Or rather, because Fortune gave unto the city of _Rome_ her first originall and beginning of so mightie an empire. Or lieth not herein some deeper cause, which we are to fetch out of the secrets of Nature and Philosophie; namely, that Fortune is the principle of all things, insomuch, as Nature consisteth by Fortune; namely, when to some things concurring casually and by chance, there is some order and dispose adjoined.
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