Editing Bonus Eventus (section)

'''Bonus Eventus''' ("Good Outcome") was a divine [[personification]] in [[Religion in ancient Rome|ancient Roman religion]]. The [[Roman Republic#Late Republic (147 BC - 30 BC)|Late Republican]] scholar [[Varro]] lists him as one of the twelve deities who presided over [[Roman agriculture|agriculture]],<ref>[[Varro]], ''De re rustica'' 1.1.4–6; [[Clifford Ando]], ''The Palladium and the Pentateuch: Towards a Sacred Topography of the Later Roman Empire'', ''Phoenix'' 55 3.4 (2001), p. 383.</ref> paired with [[Lympha]], the goddess who influenced the water supply. The original function of Bonus Eventus may have been agricultural,<ref>Lawrence Richardson, ''A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), p. 60.</ref> but during the [[Roman Empire|Imperial era]], he represents a more general concept of success and was among the numerous abstractions who appeared as icons on [[Roman currency|Roman coins]].