Sors n.; pl. Sortes A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.
Sortes Homericae or Sortes Virgilianae , a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later times the
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