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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 1666651, member: 44132&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">In </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_culture" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_culture" rel="nofollow">ancient Roman culture</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">, </font></span><i><b>felicitas</b></i><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> (from the </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" rel="nofollow">Latin</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective" rel="nofollow">adjective</a> <i>felix</i><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">, &quot;fruitful, blessed, happy, lucky&quot;) is a condition of divinely inspired productivity, blessedness, or </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia" rel="nofollow">happiness</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">. </font></span><i>Felicitas</i><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> could encompass both a woman&#039;s fertility, and a general&#039;s luck or good fortune. The divine personification of </font></span><b>Felicitas</b><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> was </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#cultus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#cultus" rel="nofollow">cultivated</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> as a goddess. Although </font></span><i>felicitas</i><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> may be translated as &quot;good luck,&quot; and the goddess Felicitas shares some characteristics and attributes with</font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna" rel="nofollow">Fortuna</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">, the two were distinguished in </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome" rel="nofollow">Roman religion</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">. Fortuna was unpredictable and her effects could be negative, as the existence of an altar to </font></span><i>Mala Fortuna</i><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> (&quot;Bad Luck&quot;) acknowledges. Felicitas, however, always had a positive significance. She appears with </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas#Epithets" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas#Epithets" rel="nofollow">several different epithets</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> that focus on aspects of her divine power.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Felicitas had a temple in Rome as early as the mid-2nd century BC, and during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic" rel="nofollow">Republican era</a> was honored at two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_festivals" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_festivals" rel="nofollow">official festivals</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome" rel="nofollow">Roman state religion</a>, on July 1 in conjunction with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Juno</a> and October 9 as <i>Fausta Felicitas</i>. Felicitas continued to play an important role in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_cult_(ancient_Rome)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_cult_(ancient_Rome)" rel="nofollow">Imperial cult</a>, and was frequently portrayed on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency" rel="nofollow">coins</a> as a symbol of the wealth and prosperity of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" rel="nofollow">Roman Empire</a>. Her primary attributes are the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus" rel="nofollow">caduceus</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia" rel="nofollow">cornucopia</a>.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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