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Definition: 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 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 Bible was used
for the same purpose by Christians.
[1913 Webster]
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