chance (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Accident, fortune1. cāsus, ūs2. fors, fortis, f.3. fortūna4. ālĕa (strictly of gambling5. tĕmĕrĭtas (i. e. a reckless, random distribution of thingsII. Probability or prospect of success • chance (subs.): I. Accident, fortune: 1. cāsus, ūs: they commit the matter to c., rem in casum ancipitis eventus committunt, Liv.: esp. in abl., casu, by chance: I mentioned them, not designedly but by c., non consulto sed casu in eorum mentionem incidi, Cic. whether by c. or by design, sive c. sive consilio, Caes. 2. fors, fortis, f.: abl. forte (both of which, esp. forte, are also used as adverbs: the nom. often has a quasi-personal meaning = fortuna): c. is more influential in some things than reason, f. in aliquibus rebus plus quam ratio potest, Cic.: what c. may bring we will bear with resignation, quod f. feret feremus aequo animo. Ter.: to happen by c., forte evenire. Ter.: Cic. 3. fortūna: v. fortune. 4. ālĕa (strictly of gambling: q. v.): the c. of war, a. belli, Liv.: there is c. in the selection of victims, a. hostiis deligendis inest, Cic. 5. tĕmĕrĭtas (i. e. a reckless, random distribution of things: rare): things in which no c. but order appears, in quibus nulla t. sed ordo apparet, Cic. Phr.: it is not by c. that the crow is now cawing on my right hand, non temere est quod corvus cantat mihi nunc ab laeva manu, Pl: Virg.: nothing abounds so much in c.s as the sea, nihil tam capax fortuitorum quam mare, Tac.: a c. customer, emptor fortuitus: to take care of the main c., rem servare, Hor. A. P. 329: rem facere, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 65: pecuniam primum quaerere, ib. v. 53. II. Probability or prospect of success: spēs, spĕi, f.: v. prospect, hope.
chance (v.) Copy link • chance (v.): v. to happen. Often expr. by means of adv. forte, casu: as, I c.d to be walking along the Sacred Way, ibam forte Via Sacra, Hor.
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.
Chance Copy link Chance; z. B. die Chancen des Kriegs u. Friedens, belli atque pacis rationes (Sall. Iug. 97, 2).