Plutarch's Romane Questions · Plutarch
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_What is the cause, that they name one gate of the citie_ Fenestra, _which is as much to say, as window; neere unto which adjoineth the bed-chamber of Fortune_? IS it for that king _Servius_ a most fortunate prince, was thought & named to lie with Fortune, who was woont to come unto him by the window? or is this but a devised tale? But in trueth, after that king _Tarquinius Priscus_ was deceased, his wife _Tanaquillis_ being a wise ladie, and endued with a roiall mind, putting forth her head, and bending forward her bodie out of her chamber window, made a speech unto the people, perswading them to elect _Servius_ for their king. And this is the reason that afterwards the place reteined this name, _Fenestra_.
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