Four Stages of Greek Religion Studies Based On a Course of Lectures Delivered
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P. 648 H 114 THE FAILURE OF NERVE iii A sentence in Pliny's Natural History, ii. 22, seems to go back to Hellenistic sources. ' Throughout the whole world, at every place and hour, by every voice Fortune alone is invoked and her name spoken : she is the one defendant, the one culprit, the one thought in men's minds, the one object of praise, the one cause. She is worshipped with insults, counted as fickle and often as blind, wandering, inconsistent, elusive, changeful, and friend of the unworth...y. . . . We are so much at the mercy of chance that Chance is our god. ' The word used is first Fortuna and then Sors, This shows how little real difference there is between the in F. H. G. Ii. 368), written about 317 B. C. It is quoted with admira- tion by Polybius xxix. 21, with reference to the defeat of Perseus of Macedon by the Romans : ' One must often remember the saying of Demetrius of Phalerum . . . In his Treatise on Fortune . .. " If you were to take not an indefinite time, nor many generations, but just the fifty years before this, you could see in them the violence of Fortune.
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