Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, FAGUTAL , FORTUNA OBSEQUENS , FORTUNA PRIMIGENIA

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a temple of Fortuna, the first-born daughter of Jupiter, on the Capitol, ascribed by tradition to Servius Tullius (Plut. q. Rom. 74:πρωτογενεία; de fort. Rom. 10:τὸ τῆς Πριμιγενείας λεγομένης ὃ πρωτογόνον τις ἂν ἑρμηνεύσειε; CIL xiv. 2852 =Carm. epig. 249; Clemens Alex. protrept. iv. 51 (?)). It was probably in the area Capitolina (Jord. i. 2. 64; Becker, Top. 404-405; Rosch. i. 1518; RE vii. 29; WR 261). See also FORTUNAE (TRES), AEDES.

A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Samuel Ball Platner. Thomas Ashby. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1929.

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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome