KnightofForestsWild t1_j6ovsoj wrote on January 31, 2023 at 9:21 PM Reply to TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book. by Equal_Caregiver_4909 Sophocles (b. 496bce) pretty much said the same thing before that. "Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted." Permalink 2
KnightofForestsWild t1_j6ovsoj wrote
Reply to TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book. by Equal_Caregiver_4909
Sophocles (b. 496bce) pretty much said the same thing before that. "Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted."