Felicitas

Felicitas ( Latin for " bliss " ) is in Roman mythology the personification of happiness, happiness and fertility. Shown she is as matron with a cornucopia, and with a caduceus, on her head she sometimes wears a Fruchtmaß.

Felicitas honor was built a temple for them under the rule of Lucullus. This temple was completed under the reign of Claudius Lepidus and burned down.

Since the dictator Sulla, who was known as Felix, the cult always won more important. Caesar had built her a temple and in the decisive battle of Thapsus was " Felicitas " the slogan of Caesar's troops. In imperial times Felicitas Augusta was the symbolization of the continuing good fortune of the Empire state and appeared with their attributes as " imperial luck" often worn on the lapel of coins. Commodus took felix 185 the first time in the official royal titulary.