Fortuna

Roman goddess of fortune and chance. In Livy she is the power that grants or withholds glory (only twice has she allowed the spolia opima); in the Aeneid she is the force Aeneas, Palinurus and Turnus are told to follow — "Fortune will help the brave" — and the "Fortune blind" Evander curses; Ovid's Sun commits Phaethon to her and Niobe boasts she is beyond her reach.