[106] Why do the Romans reverence Fortuna Primigenia,[247] or “First-born,” as one might translate it?
Is it because by Fortune, as they say, it befell Servius, born of a maidservant, to become a famous king of Rome? This is the assumption which the majority of Romans make.
Or is it rather because Fortune supplied the origin and birth of Rome?[248]
Or does the matter have an explanation more natural and philosophic, which assumes that Fortune is the origin of everything, and Nature acquires its solid frame by the operation of Fortune, whenever order is created in any store of matter gathered together at haphazard.