FOR. 
« Thefaurum dicen: pa invenire jequiendays eft 
per 12 juratores pro rege, &c: quod fide prefentabunt, 
&c, omnes fortunas, abjur bane appella, 
Some pretend it ay ele fortuito ee 3 but this 
feems to be very fan 
ORTUD ATE iA NDs, in Ancient Geograph; » an 
appellation which has ee the critics and antiquaries 
great perplexity; being the name of a pla 
golden apples ed grew there; or, as Varro fays, for 
aa with golden 
clents deferibe them as fituate without the 
feraite of ‘Cibra altar, in the oe ocean. The common 
opinion of the moderns takes them for the Canary iflands ; 
this is grounded principa me on east on and temper ratline 
of thofe ifla ands, which render ufe of cloaths there un- 
meceffary ; and from the cenit of ora ie lemons, 
a other delicious fruits Broming t ther 
ecks has found a very differe ae for them 
That an aut oo who makes his ae country, Sweden, 
the feene of tis great and extraordinary in ancient 
tradition and fable, will have the ora iflands to be 
Sweden, and the delicious —s talked of: by the ancients, 
his Panes ‘fuggelts were nothing but the virtue an 
zood manners which acteenly flourifhed in Aw cold hy- 
a en nation. 
eget ie Tune isa name mee nown in the earlier 
ve ou in Homer 
ntroduced as a nee 
made to ferve diverfe purpofes in natural philofophy and 
oe 
moft ancient circumftance we know concerning 
this godde is, ae Bupa alus, a great flatuary ae architedt, 
was the ade a ae tue for her in the cit : 
Smyrna ; oe that 
the a and by 
all goo After him ar, con anne Palais, 
who eclebrated this divinity in his verles, gay 
modern aivines not known be 
the Greeks ereted to her feveral temples. 
of Antioch, as well as thofe of Smyrna, held her in high 
veneration ; aod it is not improbable that feveral other people 
imitated their e ample. 
effes, or, 
saeeect with Detiny ee sped blind 
Renee who diftributed goo : an 
ch was the idea which the Greeks cee concerning 
er. 
The Romans conceived of her in a fimilar manner ; fince 
their moft ancient Fortune being that which was wo rfhippe ed 
at Antium, and - which was confounded with the Lots, the ufe 
tinguith her from sapeael or that fate which the Geeks called 
Eimarmene. The Romans, content at firft with confulting the 
Lots and Fortune at Antium, adopted at lait this eek 
and eftablifhed her worfhip in io city, where fhe had after- 
wards a great number of tem s. The firft was seGek to her 
by Servius Tullius sot hae, we deduce the date of the in- 
troduction of her sonte into Rome. This edifice was con- 
FOR 
fecrated to her under different names, under which various 
appellations fhe had a 
ivy and Fortunes 
a a Soe eae that ies accordingly it was reporte 
ae at bis fivithing 0 of i e goddefs ad uttered thefe 
ords, sé Re © matron baa ritéque e dedicattis.”’ 
; Cat 
7 t ; Portun of, i. day,”’ hae 
If tee which Nero confecrated to her wa 
oft magnificent, it was the moft fies ane 
slendid, in regard to the materials of which it was formed. 
t was entirely of one fort of ftone found in Cappadocia, 
ed by Pliny Phingias, the marble of which, befides its 
eae ble hardnefs, was fo white ai glaring, that it is faid, 
when the gates were fhut one faw in it clear ae Rae tem- 
ae was afterwards inclofed within that em r’s golden 
oufe. The tame goddefs ha Ranotierhi dic 7 ane, under, 
He title of « Fortune with breafts,”? who was reprefented 
much like Diana of Ephelus, and If, whofe head-drefs 
fhe wears i : Rae eeahiaed 
happy ar 
Gera liok nh Ae cccurs on 
of Fortuna redux. 
cate 
haul Ga. 
the m 
$, as well : ast 
lutarch, in an expr —. = = pe of the Ro- 
mans, a for the pra the ancient poets 
who feem to make Jupiter ie ere of all the evils of 
life. Mankind, he obferves, before the name of Fo rtune 
nad got into the ‘ld, perceiving a certain arbitrary 
caufe. difpofing of things in an irrefiftible. manner, called it 
God: but the fame caufe being often obferved to act at 
random, and without any rule or order at all, the fupreme 
t being came to be diveited of the attribute; and Fortunes 
or Deftiny, acknowledged in his ftea 
It is not sine 0 unravel saad the ancients meant by the 
me Fortu omans underftoo it a principle 
a fortuity, ieieels fines came to si without being 
neceffitated t what and whence that princi- 
a] 
an 
his knowing for what purpofe. 
366, affirms, they were men who made a deity of Fortune: 
‘‘ Nullum numen abeft, fi fit prudentia ; fed te 
Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam cceloque Soca?! 
Hie ee Mr. ee gives another reading of this 
a 
ao) 
“e alee numen —— fi fit prudentia ; fed te 
Nos mine Bouiiuass deam cee a ae ae 
