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Question 36. Why do they call one gate at Rome the
Window, just by which is the bed-chamber of Fortune,
so called?
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Solution. Was it because Servius, who became the
most successful king, was believed to have conversed with
Fortune, who came in to him at a window? Or may this
be but a fable; and was it that Tarquinius Priscus the
king dying, his wife Tanaquil, being a discreet and royal
woman, putting her head out at a window, propounded
Servius to the citizens, and persuaded them to proclaim
him king; and that this place had the name of it?
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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