FOR 
Mr. Spence fays, hue he has feen an ancient gem, in which 
Cybele, the mother of the gods, is reprefented as turning 
away her head from Fortune, in an attitude of difowning 
and rejecting her. Polymetis, p. 150, 154, &c. 
According to the opinion of the heathens, therefore, a 
oe in eae was only be — - t ings 2 a pe a 
an or 
iota i at se pilofophica fe fente ce eee word coincides 
with what i is valgarly ca called chan 
eive 
cof n men at her pleafure. 
«QO diva, gratum que regis 
Antium,”’ in the thirty- ‘fth ode of the fr {t book, wherehe re- 
commends Auguftus, then preparing for a whe t to Britain, 
to her protection. From thefe capri pa eae it may 
be eel that eg ancients at o ok Fortune for 
ood to fore and 
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of thofe who ere&ted altar 
certained what it sali capa in ue as of thofe who now ufe 
the word in their writin 
They who would faktitute the name Providence in lieu 
of that of Fortune, cannot a ae tolerable fenfe to hal 
the phrafes vielen the wor 
the goddets, receded by neceffity, hold- 
ing nails ae pie in her hands, with a cramp-iron, 
and melted lead to faften it; rarely accompanied with 
Fidelity, unlefs when fhe abandons a family ; for in that 
cafe Fidelity never fails to depart with her, as well as 
frie 
crace 
nds. 
‘She is difrefpetfully fpoken of by moft of the Roman 
writers, and reprefented as bse inconftant, unjutt, and 
delig rigs) in mifchief. 
Hor. lib. i. od. 34. ver. 26. lib. j : 
Theb. xii. ver. 505. However, ‘thoy be had a good as well.as 
a bad Fortune, a confiane and inconitant Fortune, the latter 
of which was reprefented with pl ei a aw eel by her. 
or. lib. iii. od. 29. ¥ 
OVEUNA gemine, 
e twin fortune , it is probable that thefe were good and 
Martial, who alfo fays they were fitters, 
adds, that they iffued forth oracles ae the fea fhore. 
Suetonius calls the two arate “* the Lots of Antium,’’ 
pines it was by the Lots they were confulted 
Juvenal apna stoa ane of Fortune, whieh exhibited 
her onder ave d chara¢ter, as the patronefs of the 
eases infans that were expofed by their parents in the ftreets. 
at. vi. 
guar lity. jou Roma 
with a cornucopia, a e helm of.a 
that te ditsbutes riches, and direéts the affairs of ‘he 
werld. effet, it is with fuch charaGters, that we fee 
her ec onieaeea on hae — — _ koa inferptions, 
FORTVNA AVG. 
REDYCIS, &c, Sones ihe is ve pointing a a 1 globe 
FOR 
before her feet, Nea a maa in one hand, and holding the 
ornucopia in the o 
om ae ‘as oe have already obferved, had a virile as 
well as a muliebrian Fortune for the objects of their adora- 
tion: the Fortuna virilis was agate by the mea, and the 
Fortuna ae by the wom 
ey honoured Fortune alto iuntler a variety of other ap- 
pellations. ortune worfhipped at Antium was pro- 
bably of the moft yc charaéter of any among the 
Romans, if we may judge by the account which Horace 
olay us of the great a proceions that were made to 
ib. 1. od. xxxv. _ . 22. But the moft celebrat- 
ai kein f Fort nefte. Statins fpeaks of 
feveral Fortunes thet, bie calls hein the Prenefling forores. 
Lib. i. Sylv. iit. ver. 80. 
the rever fe “of a medal of Commodus, we have a re- 
prefentatfon of Fortune, under Es quality, or furname of 
Tanens, i.e. fla elding a horfe by the 
reins. On the Greek medals we meet with A TAOH or 
KAAH TYXH, Good Fortune. Conftantine gave the epithet 
anthoufia, i.e. flourifhing, to the Fortune of his new city 
ne é: 
RTUNE, Part o of. See 
Tung Bay, in Gasrepiy. a 1 bay on the S. coaft of 
Meena, 20 niles N of Placentia bay. This ex- 
tenfive bay is interfperfed mG aes Aon and within it 
are _ bays, with great depth o 
une Lfland, or Good - ertane "flan. a {mall ifland 
in the Teli fea, near the of the ifland of 
Sumatra. S. lat. 1°35’. E. lon ee os 9 Rove Teal ifland 
in the Eaf-Indian ea, near the SS coaft of the ifland of Ce- 
lebes. at.o° so!. E. long. 123° 48'. 
Forrune, Lflands of; fae Tall iflands 
the Pe oaft of Kerguelen’s land. S. lat. 
eo 
ce) 
- pe 
Pore UNE ibe. Pretenders to tell fortunes, and to any 
crafty fcience for the difcovery of ftolen goods, are pu- 
ifhable by imprifonment, pillory, and binding to their 
good yee d fhall be deemed v nds. Stat. 
Geo. II. &. 4. Stat. 17 Geo. II. cap. 5. fe. 2. 
See Cues 
RTY Days. See Quapracesima, and Len 
Forty ee court. See So of the for 2 
Forty rs, prayers of. See Ho 
ree Billing Land, in Agriciliarey, is a t 
plied in Scotland to a certain portion of arable land. But 
the forty-fhilling land of old extent confilted of eight 
oxgangs, Or one hundred and four a 
FORULI, in Ancient Geogr as , coer of the Sabines, 
mentioned by. Virgil. According to Strabo, it was feated 
ona rock, and very a in oo refpect for the ac- 
commudation of thofe w oe = engage ina 
revolt. Its precife fit fit pe is i oer 
FORUM, in Antiquity, is v canes acceptations ; 
fometimes for a place of traffic, aniver us to our market. 
place; in which fenfe it has ufually fome adjeétive added to: 
rum boarium, market for 
m, for a pifcarium, f m pif- 
r bread ; forum cupedinarum, ae aa ;: “and oli- 
torium forum, the forbemnat ‘ket. 
ORUM, again, is ufed for any place whee the governor 
of a province convenes his people to give a accord- 
ing to courfe of law. : 
nce a man is faid forum agere, when he keeps the 
affizes ; forum Meni a when he appoints the place where 
they are to be kept , 
ORM yas a a public ftanding place in _the city = 
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