Sortes

Matthew P Dillon

Sortes

Classics & Ancient History

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'Sortes' (lit. "lots") were employed to foretell the future, and as a method of DIVINATION were used by both Greeks and Romans. In the Roman Empire at the temple of FORTUNA in PRAENESTE verses of Vergil were inscribed on wooden tablets, one of which would be drawn randomly in a consultation and interpreted. Sortes could take the form of the random consultation of a book such as Homer's 'Iliad'; the lines so found were interpreted as having prophetic meaning.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Editors	Eric Orlin, Lisbeth S Fried, Jennifer Knust, Michael Satlow, Michael E Pregill
Place of Publication	New York, United States of America
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	900-900
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9780203506240, 9780415831970
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Classical Greek and Roman History

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