CIL XIV 2863
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CIL XIV 2863: ORCEVIA NUMERI/ NATIONU CRATIA/ FORTUNA DIOVO FILEA/ PRIMOCENIA/ DONOM DEDI.
- "This question is not topographical and can not be discussed at any length here. But the best solution seems to be that Fortuna as child of Jupiter (Diovo filea primocenia, C. I. L., XIV., 2863, lovis puer primigenia, C. I. L., XIV, 2862, 2863) was confounded with her name lovis puer, and another cult tradition which made Fortuna mother of two children. As the Roman deity Jupiter grew in importance, the tendency was for the Romans to misunderstand lovis puer as the boy god Jupiter, as they really did (Wissowa, Relig. u. Kult. d. Roemer, p. 209) , and the pride of the Praenestines then made Fortuna the mother of Jupiter and Juno, and considered Primigenia to mean " first born," not " first born of Jupiter." --A study of the topography and municipal history of Praeneste (1908) by Magoffin, Ralph Van Deman, 1874-1942
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