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Sortes Homericae
Sors Sors, n.; pl. Sortes. [L.] A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots. Sortes Homeric[ae] or 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.

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- The Sortes Homericae (Latin for "Homeric lots"), a type of divination by bibliomancy, involved drawing a random sentence or line from the works of Homer...
- ('sortilege, divination by drawing lots') which specialized into sortes Homericae, sortes Virgilianae, and sortes Sanctorum, using the texts of Homer, Virgil...
- oblige" Other Warriors: Legends of Troy (video game) Age of Bronze (comics) Sortes Homericae Hera****us Weighing of souls Where Troy Once Stood Blood rain...
- oblige" Other Warriors: Legends of Troy (video game) Age of Bronze (comics) Sortes Homericae Hera****us Weighing of souls Where Troy Once Stood Blood rain...
- mythology Homeric psychology Homer's Ithaca List of Homeric characters Sortes Homericae Tabulae Iliacae Telemachy The Golden Bough Trojan Battle Order Trojan...
- oblige" Other Warriors: Legends of Troy (video game) Age of Bronze (comics) Sortes Homericae Hera****us Weighing of souls Where Troy Once Stood Blood rain...
- practice was common in late antiquity and had pagan precedents in the Sortes Homericae and Sortes Vergilianae. It was nevertheless condemned by numerous church...
- person thus obtained being supposed to be applicable to him (see Sortes Homericae and Sortes Vergilianae, lots created from verses of Homer and Virgil)...
- to have been modeled on the ancient Roman sortes as seen in the Sortes Homericae, and later the Sortes Sanctorum. Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie...
- oblige" Other Warriors: Legends of Troy (video game) Age of Bronze (comics) Sortes Homericae Hera****us Weighing of souls Where Troy Once Stood Blood rain...