La Fortuna by Cristofano Allori 1577-1621

"Pity a mother, calmly and patiently listen to her pious prayers, and the higher the Gods have exalted thee, the more gently bear down upon the fallen. What is given to misery is a gift to Fortuna (Fortune) [i.e. the Goddess accepts generosity to the miserable as an offering, which she repays in the hour of need]. So may thy chaste wife's couch see thee again; so may Laertes [your father] prolong his years till he welcome thee home once more; so may thy son succeed thee."

-Tragedies of Seneca, Troades 695 ff

La Fortuna by Cristofano Allori 1577-1621

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https://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Tykhe.html

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedies_of_Seneca_(1907)_Miller/Troades