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The Goddess Fortuna—who was imported to Rome by her protégé Servius Tullius – has lunar characteristics.
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Ratri-mani is one of the many ways of referring to the Moon in Sanskrit.
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Plutarch, de fortuna romamorum, 320 BCE; see no. 1.2.
The geese awakened by Fortuna in Plutarch, de fort. Rom., 325 BCE.
Fortuna, the window and Servius Tullius in Plutarch, de fort. Rom., 322E: δια τινος θυριδος
καταβαινουσαν εις το δωματιον, ο νυν Φενεστελλαν πυλην καλουσιν, and in Ovid, Fasti, 6.577-8: nocte domum parva solita est intrare fenestra; / unde Fenestellae nomina porta tenet.
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Torelli 1984, p. 126, recalls a passage in Dio Cassius (42.26.4) in which he describes a statue of Fortuna “which […] must see and consider everything that is in front of its eyes and behind too, lest she forget her origins, the place from which she began before she became what she is today,” noting that “Fortuna Respiciens coincides particularly well with the Aphrodite Kallipyge type”.
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Magini, L. (2015). The Movements of the Moon and Venus and the Language of Myth. In: Stars, Myths and Rituals in Etruscan Rome. Space and Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07266-1_8
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