Sors

[Sarah]

A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots. SortesHomericæ or Virgilianæ Etym: [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], a formof divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking thefirst passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homeror Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several weredeposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to bepursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose byChristians.