- SORTES VIRGILIANÆ
- consulting the pages of Virgil to ascertain one's fortune, by opening the book at random, putting the finger on a passage and taking that for the oracle of fate one is in quest of.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
SORTES VIRGILIANÆ
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Sortes — Sors Sors, n.; pl. {Sortes}. [L.] A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots. [1913 Webster] {Sortes Homeric[ae]} or {Sortes Virgilian[ae]} [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Sortes Virgilianae — Sors Sors, n.; pl. {Sortes}. [L.] A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots. [1913 Webster] {Sortes Homeric[ae]} or {Sortes Virgilian[ae]} [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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