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Fortuna
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Fortuna (fôrt`nə), in Roman religion, goddess of fortune. Worshiped under several forms, she appears to have originally been a goddess of fertility. She was later identified with Tyche, the Greek goddess of chance, and like her was represented with a ship's rudder and a cornucopia.
Fortuna [fȯr′tü·nə]
(astronomy)
An asteroid with a diameter of about 130 miles (210 kilometers), mean distance from the sun of 2.44 astronomical units, and C-type surface composition.
Fortuna
goddess of chance. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 58]
See : Chance


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Vita Moses), selected Rabbinic texts, Joseph and Aseneth, The Hymn of the Pearl, the mystery religions, particularly the Metamorphoses and the adventures of Apuleius's Lucius, passages that discuss Roman apparel, chiefly the Toga Virilis, and select texts from the early church in which clothing reflection and baptismal practices are intimately linked (Gospel of Thomas 37; Hippolytus' Apostolic Tradition, Gospel of Philip 101; Jerome's Epistle to Fabiola 19).
The Significance of Clothing Imagery in the Pauline Corpus by Neufeld, Dietmar Isaac / Biblical Theology Bulletin
Erat ei sermo consideratus et interpunctus, elegans translatus, proverbiorum luce nitidus, sententiarum et verborum pondere quadratus, solidus ac virilis.
Rhetoric and humanism in Quattrocento Venice by Cox, Virginia / Renaissance Quarterly
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