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Plutarch, On The Fortune Of The Romans, 319d

nan But entrust your sails to Fortune and receive her breeze, confident because you bear Caesar and Caesar's Fortune." Thus firmly was he convinced that Fortune accompanied him on his voyages, his travels, his campaigns, his commands; Fortune's task it was to enjoin calm upon the sea, summer weather upon the winter-time, speed upon the slowest of men, courage upon the most dispirited, and (more unbelievable than these) to enjoin flight upon Pompey, and upon Ptolemy the murder of his guest, that Pompey should fall and Caesar should escape the stain of his blood. What then? Caesar's son, who was the first to be styled Augustus, and who ruled for fifty-four years

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fortuna	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 68
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porta fenestella	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 68
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servius tullius	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 68
sovereign,sovereignty	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 68
temple,of fortuna	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 68
topography,topographical'	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 68