Fortune favours the bold

Fortes fortuna ADIUVAT (or in its original Old Latin form: Fortis fortuna ADIUVAT ) is a Latin proverb.

It can be translated as " the courageous ( brave ) helps the happiness." The Germans have "Fresh is daring half done " and "Who Dares Wins " a similar meaning.

It is bordered by Terence Phormio in the ( I, 4, 203) and used by Cicero Disputationes in the Tusculanae (II, 4, 11 ) referred to as the old saying. Go back to it on the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos, as Claudius Claudian in his Epistola ad Probinum (Ep. 4.9 ) leads: Fors iuvat audentes, Cei sententia dads ( "Fortune helps the brave, according to the saying of the poet of Ceos "). According to another textual tradition " Prisci sententia dads " ( " after the saying of the poet from an early period " ) the citation reads, however. Similarly, it also quoted Virgil in the Aeneid (10, 284): " Audentis fortuna iuvat ", and Tibullus in his Elegies (I, 2, 16 ): " Fortes ADIUVAT ipsa Venus " - " Venus herself helps Wage ends ".

The proverb is also the motto of the coat of arms of the USS Nicholson and in the modified form " Audentis Fortuna Iuvat " the multinational Allied Rapid Reaction Corps ( ARRC ) in Innsworth England.

It is also the motto of the 2nd Company of the logistics battalion 471 of the Armed Forces and is out there in the company crest. The 3./PzBtl 241 in Kirchham at Pocking attributed this motto to their company building. The slogan was also used in the company coat of arms of the 2nd Infantry Company of Infantry Battalion 12 from Amstetten ( Lower Austria), the Austrian army.

It is also the motto of the Federal Police Aviation Group (and its squadrons ). He is also engraved on the bottom of a specially designed for the Federal Police Pilot's Watch by Junkers.

Swell

  • Büchmann, Winged words, 33rd edition, Ullsteinhaus, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1981, p 252
  • XLI. Ad Probinum. In: Theodor Birt (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 10: Claudii Claudiani Carmina. Berlin 1892, pp. 334-335 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
  • Austrian Armed Forces
  • Proverb
  • Latin phrase
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