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" The goddess of fortune is represented on ancient monuments with a horn of plenty, and sometimes two, in her hands. She is blindfolded, and generally holds a wheel in her hands as an emblem of her inconstancy. Sometimes she appears with wings, and treads... "
Manual of Classical Literature: From the German of J.J. Eschenburg ... With ... - Page 118
by Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Nathan Welby Fiske - 1849 - 690 pages
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and ...

Oscar Wilde - Literary Collections - 2000 - 552 pages
...and from her hand were derived riches and poverty, pleasures and misfortune, blessings and pain . . . The goddess of Fortune is represented on ancient monuments...wheel in her hand, as an emblem of her inconstancy" (Lemprière, 268-9). The allusion appears in Savile (CWksvn. 54). 342.20. The basis of every scandal...
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