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Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies, Vol. 4 (of 5)

Note 57 — CONCERNING THE FORTUNE OF THE ROMANS.

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The temple built in Caesar’s gardens was a temple of Fors Fortuna; and as this name appeared most frequently in the genitive, Fortis Fortunae, Plutarch probably mistook the title for Fortis, which he translates by ἀνδρεία. As the gardens of Caesar were trans Tiberim, Plutarch cannot refer to the temple still standing in the Forum Boarium, generally called that of Fortuna Virilis(?). See Becker’s Römische Alterthümer, I. pp. 478-480, note. (G.)

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