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Virgilianae
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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- Quercus pubescens (synonyms virgiliana), commonly known as the downy oak, pubescent oak or Italian oak, is a species of white oak (genus Quercus sect....
- The Piazza Virgiliana is an oblong shaped park in the center of Mantua, region of Lombardy Italy. It spans from a cir****vailling Piazza Virgilliana street...
- Royal Virgilian Academy of Science and Arts (now "Accademia ****onale Virgiliana"), the theatre in Mantua was designed in late Baroque or early Rococo...
- The Appendix Vergiliana is a collection of Latin poems traditionally ascribed as being the juvenilia (work written as a youth) of Virgil (70–19 BC). Many...
- of the phrase was used in "Moretum", a poem belonging to the Appendix Virgiliana, describing (on the surface at least) the making of moretum, a kind of...
- Virgil, who is commemorated by a statue at the lakeside park "Piazza Virgiliana". Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes, created during...
- following academic institutions: "Accademia Ambrosiana", "Accademia ****onale Virgiliana", and "International Academy of the History of Science" and is also co-founder...
- The Accademia ****onale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti (in English, National Virgilian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts) is an Italian scientific...
- The Place of Dido in History, 1920. F. Della Corte, La Iuno-Astarte virgiliana, 1983. G. De Sanctis, Storia dei Romani, 1916. Edgeworth, R. J. (1976)...
- Edward Holdsworth, William Warburton, and John Jortin. 1825. Miscellanea Virgiliana: In Scriptis Maxime Eruditorum Virorum Varie Dispersa, in Unum Fasciculum...