CHANCE Copy link • CHANCE 1. casus (chance; what happens unexpectedly as the result of unknown causes: συμφορά): fors (τύχη: chance as a sort of quasi-mythological being, sporting with men and their affairs, and baffling all human calculations, etc.: opposed to ratio): fortuna (fortunae not blind chance, like fors, but as taking a part in human affairs from personal favor or disaffection). Blind chance, fors: a happy or lucky chance, fors fortuna: by a lucky chance, forte fortuna: anything is the result of blind chance, aliquid temere fit caeco casu: this is no result of mere chance, id evenit non temere nec casu: all is the work of chance, omnia casu fiunt or facta sunt: it is all chance, casus est in re (i. e., how it will turn out): to trust to chance, rem in casum ancipitis fortunae committere: to leave it to chance, casum potius quam consilium sequi. It happened by chance, that, forte evenit, ut; casu accidit, ut; forte ita incidit, ut, etc. A chance; event whose cause is unknown, casus (as the result of accident): eventus (issue, event, as being in conformity with, or opposed to, anybody’s wish). To be subject to many chances, sub casibus mulds esse. BY CHANCE, forte: casu: fortuito: fortuitu [SYN. under ACCIDENT]: si forte. (The words are found in this connection and order), casu et fortuito or fortuitu: temere (marks anything as not the result of purpose or design). To make mention of anything by chance, in mentionem alicujus rei incidere. Vid: Forte is the regular word after si, sin, nisi (ni), ne, num, and ecquid, in the sense of “perchance.” GAME OF CHANCE, alea. 2. v. happen, Vid: To chance upon (= meet accidentally), incidere in aliquem, incurrere atque incidere in aliquem.