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She, as queen of causes and arbiter and judgeCf. Cic., Acad. ii. 28, 91, veri etfalsi quasi disceptatricem et iudicem. of events, controls the urn with its lots and causes the changes of fortune,Cf. Ovid, Metam. xv. 409, alternare vices. and sometimes she gives our plans a different result than that at which we aimed, changing and confounding many actions. She too, binding the vainly swelling pride of mortals with the indissoluble bond of fate, and tilting changeably, as she knows how to do, the balance of gain and loss, now bends and weakens the uplifted necks of the proud, and now, raising the good from the lowest estate, lifts them to a happy life. Moreover, the storied past has given her wings in order that she might be thought to come to all with swift speed; and it has given her a helm to hold and has put a wheel beneath her feet, in order that none may fail to know that she runs through all the elements and rules the universe.With this description cf. that of Fortune in Pacuvius, inc. xiv., Ribbeck (p. 144), and Horace, Odes, i. 34.
