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Plutarch, On The Fortune Of The Romans, 318d

nan And Fortune's son Ihold myself to be. In the Latin tongue he was called Felix, but for the Greeks he wrote his name thus: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Epaphroditus. And the trophies at my home in Chaeroneia and those of the Mithridatic Wars are thus inscribed, quite appropriately; for not "Night," as Menander has it, but Fortune has the "greater share in Aphroditê." Might one, then, after proffering this as a suitable introduction, bring on the Romans once more as witnesses in behalf of Fortune, on the ground that they assigned more to Fortune than to Virtue? At least, it was only recently and after many years that Scipio Numantinus built a shrine of Virtue in Rome;

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architecture,chaeronea	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
autopsy	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
chaeronea,and sulla	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 30
chaeronea	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 30, 31
damon peripoltas	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
dionysus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
historicity	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 30
inscription	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 30
italy	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
local knowledge	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 30, 31
lucullus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
memory,historical	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
myth,mythical,mythological	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
opheltas	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
orchomenus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
philip ii	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
sacrifice	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
statue,lucullus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31
sulla,l. cornelius	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 30, 31
sulla	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 30
walls,city'	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 31