FORTUNA HUIUSCE DIEI, AEDES
a temple vowed by Q. Lutatius Catulus
on the day of the battle of Vercellae, 30th June, 101 B.C. (Plut. Mar. 26:
Τύχη τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκείνης), and dedicated by him on an anniversary of the
battle (Fast. Allif. Pine. ad iii Kal. Aug., CIL i². p. 217, 219, 323). It was
in the campus Martius (Fast. locc. citt.: in campo), but the exact site is
unknown. This Fortuna is clearly the deity to whom the happy issue
of each day is owing (Cic. de leg. ii. 28:
Fortunaque sit vel Huiusce diei,
nam valet in omnis dies, etc). Certain statues by Pythagoras of Samos
stood ad aedem huiusce diei in Pliny's time (
NH xxxiv. 60), but whether
this temple is meant or that on the Palatine is uncertain (see below).
In the sixth century (Procop.
BG i. 15. I ) there was a stone replica of the
Palladium which Diomede had brought from Troy to Italy
ἐν τῷ τῆς Τυχης ἱερῷ, and it is generally assumed that this temple is referred to, although
without much reason (HJ 491 ;
Rosch. i. 1514;
RE vii. 32).
Paribeni (
BC 1915, 168) proposes to interpret Fortune Camcesi (sic)
on the plinth of a statuette of Fortuna (
CIL vi. 185=30709; MD 895)
as an error for Campesi (Campensi) and to refer it to this temple.
