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A canon (xxxvi) of Orleans 511) excommunicates those who practised divination auguries, or lots falsely called Sortes Sanctorum
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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There are many rules for choosing names according to the week-day, the ascendant planet, the Sortes
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But the superstition is not local: we have the Sortes Virgilianae (Virgil being a magician) as well as Coranicae.
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“Fál” alluding to the Sortes Coranicæ and other silly practices known to the English servant-girs when curious about her future and her futur.
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Virgilianae, or sortes Homericae, or especially the Sortes biblicae, it would be thought providential.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 September 1774 1963
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Gilbert of Nogent says that in his time (about the beginning of the twelfth century) it was customary, at the consecration of bishops, to consult the Sortes
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The _Sortes Sanctorum_, or _Sortes Sacrae_, of the Christians, has been illustrated in the _Classical Journal_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827 Various
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They were evidently derived from the _Sortes Homerica_ and _Sortes Virgilanae_ of the Pagans, but accommodated to their own circumstances by the Christians.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827 Various
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A remembrance of an ancient superstition flashed through the master's mind, and he determined to try the _Sortes Virgilianæ_.
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The Sortes Prœnestinæ were famous among the Greeks; and this superstition passed into Christian nations.
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