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sortĭo, īre, to draw lots (ante-class.; collat. form of sortior): tute sorti, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 43; 2, 6, 61: inter se sortiant, Varr. ap. Non. 471, 5.
With acc.: inter se sortiunt urbem atque agros, Enn. ap. Non. 471, 10 (Trag. v. 153 Vahl.).
- b. sortītus, a, um, Part., in pass. signif., drawn by lot, assigned or obtained by lot (class.): consilia, quae erant sortita in singulos candidatos, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; Prop. 4 (5), 11, 20: gemina est sedes sortita per amnem, id. 4 (5), 7, 55: mille urbes Asiae sortito rexerit anno, Stat. S. 5, 2, 57: conjux, Amm. 18, 6, 14.
1. sortītus, a, um, Part. of sortior.
2. sortītus, ūs, m. [sortior].
- I. Lit., a casting or drawing of lots (rare for the class. sortitio): specula in sortitu’st mihi, Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 27: si pluribus de rebus uno sortitu retulisti, Cic. Dom. 19, 50; plur.: quae sortitus non pertulit ullos, i. e. for whom no lots were cast, Verg. A. 3, 323.
- II. Transf.
- * A. Concr., a lot: jam sortitus versarat ahenā Casside, Stat. Th. 6, 389.
- * B. (Like sors, II. C.) Lot, fate, destiny, Stat. Th. 12, 557.