Lot: chaunce: fortune: portion in inheritaunce. The whole summe in a cõmon banke or stock where. in many haue part. A principal summe of money borrowed. Destinie: iudgement: fatal necessitie: Charge: office: state: condition. Cæca sors Lucan. Blynd chaunce. Deterior. Sen. Improuia. Claud. Inaudita Græcis sors ista, Vide INAVDIO. Iniqua. Virg. Misfortune. Mala sors prædæ. Ouid. An ill part of a bootie gotten. Noua pugnæ sors. Virg. Salutifera. Sors. Ouid. Arripere id quod sors offert. Cice. To take that by chaunce happeneth. Tueri sortem quam tribuit fortuna. Ouid. Sors omnia versat. Virg. Quòd non suæ sortis id negotium esset. Li. Because that matter pertained nothing to his charge, or was no parte of his office. Aequalis sors. Horat. Like ftate or condition. Gratam sortem habemus. Ouid. We are content with our state or condition. Humana sors. Ouid. Intentata. Virg. Irrequieta. Ouid. A state of life that neuer hath any rest. Miferandæ sortis asellus. Ouid. Of miferable state and condition. Mortalis sors. Ouid. A mortall state or condition. Onerosa. Ouid. Ratio dedit mihi sortem. Horat. With good aduisement and deliberation I haue chosen a state and condition of life. Tori sorte gaudens. Ouid. Reioysting that the was so noblye maried. Fors obiecit mihi sortem. Horat. Fortune hath giuen mee a maner of life. Saturni sors ego prima sui. Ouid. I was the first chylde that Saturne had. Sors. Virg. Destinie: fatal necessitie. Acerba sors. Sen. A grieuous destinie. Aspera. Stat. Diuina. Cic. Durissima. Claud. Crudelis. Sen. Durissima sors fati. Lucan. Ferrea difficilisque sors vitæ me premit. Ouid. Funesta sors. Stat. Pessima sors rerum. Ouid. Suprema. Virg. Toleranda nulli sors. Stat. Vltima sors rerum. Lucan. Sors. Terent. The principall summe layde out to vsury or otherwife. Teren. Etiam de sorte nunc venio in dubium. I now am in doubt whether I that haue my money that I payd for her. Sors. Virg. Iudgement. Virg. Necvero he sine sorte datæ, fine iudice sedes. Assignare aliquid alicui sorte. Brutus Ciceroni. Tristi sorte damnatur catenæ. Sil. Conijcere aliquem in sortem. Cælius Ciceroni. Deerrat sors. Vide DEERRO. Sorte sumus lecti. Ouid. We are chosen by lot. Loca sorte legunt. Virg. Nancisci sortem. Cic. Res reuocatur ad sortem. Cic. Renuntiari extra sortem. Ci. To be denounced officer without casting of lots. Simia vrnam euertit, sortem dissipauit. Cic. Ducere sortem prædæ. Virg. Conijcere sortes in hydriam. Cic. To cast lottes into. &c. Sortes. Valer. Maxim. Oracles, or the rolles wherein the answeres of Idols were written. Duræ sortes. Ouid. Faticinæ. Ouid. Malígnæ sortes tacita ambage. Claud. Obscuræ sortis ambages Ouid. Sacræ sortis. Ouid. Fatigare sortes. Lucret. To wearie the gods with calling on them to haue Oracles and aunsweres. Sortem trahere. Suet. To take the lot out of a pot. Sorte trahere. Virg.

I. Lit., a lot: aut populna sors aut abiegna, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 32: coniciam sortes in sitellam, id. ib. 2, 5, 34 sq.: tot in hydriam sortes conicerentur, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, 127: ponere in sitellam, Liv. 41, 18, 8; and simply conicere, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 34 sq.; Cic. Lig. 7, 21: deicere, Caes. B. C. 1, 6 fin.; Verg. A. 5, 490; cf.: cum dejecta in id sors esset, lots were cast for it, Liv. 21, 42: miscere, Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86: ducere, id. ib. 2, 41, 86; id. Verr. 2, 4, 64, 143: cum de consularibus mea prima sors exisset, id. Att. 1, 19, 3: ut cujusque sors exciderat, Liv. 21, 42, 3: sortem in sitellam latam, id. 41, 18, 8 Weissenb.: et Caere sortes extenuatas (creditum est), as an omen of ill, id. 21, 62, 5 and 8: sortes suā sponte adtenuatas, id. 22, 1, 11.—Of chances or tickets in a lottery, Suet. Aug. 75 fin.; Lampr. Heliog. 21 fin.—

II. Transf.

A. Abstr., a casting or drawing of lots, decision by lot, lot: quaestor quem sors dedit, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3, 11: res revocatur ad sortem, id. Verr. 2, 2, 51, 127: sorti sum victus, Plaut. Cas. 2, 7, 5: ei sorte provincia Sicilia obvenit, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, 17; cf.: cui Sicilia provincia sorte evenisset, Liv. 29, 20; for which: cui ea provincia sorti evenit, id. 4, 37, 6: Q. Caecilio sorte evenit, ut in Bruttiis adversum Hannibalem bellum gereret, id. 28, 45, 11: sorte ductus, Cic. Rep. 1, 34, 51; Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 201: sorte ducti e primoribus civitatis unus et viginti, Tac. A. 1, 54; 13, 29: sorte in provinciam proficisci, S. C. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 8: sorte agros legionibus assignare, Brut. ib., 11, 20, 3 et saep.: de se ter sortibus consultum dicebat, Caes. B. G. 1, 53 fin.: jubet extra sortem Theomnastum renuntiari, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, 127: extra sortem agrum Campanum dividere, Suet. Caes. 20. —

B. A lot, share, the duty assigned by lot, esp. of the prætors, who divided by lot the duties of their office: praetores, Q. Fulvius Flaccus urbanam, M. Valerius Laevinus peregrinam sortem in juris dictione habuit, Liv. 23, 30, 18; 22, 35, 5; cf.: urbana, peregrina (sc. sors), id. 27, 36, 10; 28, 10, 9 al.: urbana et peregrina (provinciae), quae duorum ante sors fuerat, id. 25, 3, 2; 24, 44, 2; cf. id. 35, 41, 6: comitia suae sortis esse, i.e. had by lot been assigned to him, id. 35, 6, 2; hence, numquam ex urbe afuit nisi sorte, i.e. on official duty, Cic. Planc. 27, 67.—

C. In gen., an oracular response (which was often written on a little tablet or lot), a prophecy (cf. responsum): cum (Spartiatae) oraculum ab Jove Dodonaeo petivissent legatique illud, in quo inerant sortes, collocavissent: simia et sortis ipsas et cetera quae erant ad sortem parata, disturbavit, Cic. Div. 1, 34, 76: ut interpres egeat interprete et sors ipsa ad sortis referenda sit, id. ib. 2, 56, 115: Italiam Lyciae jussere capessere sortes, i.e. the oracles of the Lycian Apollo, Verg. A. 4, 346; 4, 377; so, Phoebeae, Ov. M. 3, 130: faticinae, id. ib. 15, 436: sacrae, id. ib. 1, 368; 11, 412: edita oraculo, Curt. 3, 1, 16; 5, 4, 11; 6, 9, 18; Val. Max. 1, 6, 3: neque responsa sortium ulli alii committere ausus, Liv. 1, 56: conjecturam postulat, ut se edoceret, Quo sese vertant tantae sortes somniūm, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. v. 64 Vahl.).—

2. In partic., oracular sayings, verses, or sentences at the opening of a book, selected for the purpose: sortes Vergilii or Vergilianae, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 14, 5; Spart. Had. 2, 8: sacrae, Tib. 1, 3, 11: sanctorum, Isid. Orig. 8, 9, 28: sortes tollere, Tib. 1. 1.: ducere, Juv. 6, 583: de paginis poëtae cujusdam sortem consulere, Aug. Conf. 4, 3: de paginis evangelicis sortes legere, id. Ep. 119.—

D. In gen., like the Engl. lot, for fate, destiny, chance, fortune, condition, share, part (esp. freq. after the Aug. per.; cf. fors, casus, fortuna): nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futurae, Verg. A. 10, 501: ferrea sors vitae, Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 28: vires ultra sortemque senectae, Verg. A. 6, 114: iniqua, id. ib. 6, 332; Liv. 38, 23: qui fit, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem Seu ratio dederit seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat, Hor. S. 1, 1, 1: sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, id. C. 2, 10, 14: sors mea fuit irrequieta, Ov. M. 2, 386: sors querenda, Non celanda foret, id. ib. 3, 551: aliena, Liv. 21, 43, 2: sunt quibus ad portas cecidit custodia sorti, to whose lot, Verg. G. 4, 165; Sil. 7, 368: homines ultimae sortis, Suet. Aug. 19; cf.: non tuae sortis juvenem, of your rank or condition, Hor. C. 4, 11, 22: sors tua mortalis, Ov. M. 2, 56: nec cedit nisi sorte mihi, id. ib. 5, 529: dilectos inter sors prima sodales, id. Tr. 4, 5, 1: huic sortem concede priorem, id. A. A. 1, 581: quattuor ille quidem juvenes totidemque crearat Femineae sortis, i. e. of the female sex, id. M. 6, 680; so, feminea, id. ib. 13, 651: altera, id. ib. 9, 676; cf. id. ib. 3, 329: Saturni sors ego prima fui, i. e. the first child, id. F. 6, 30: suae sortis oblitus, Curt. 3, 2, 11: ultima, id. 9, 2, 6: nec pars nec sors in sermone isto, Vulg. Act. 8, 21.—With gen.: cujus mali sors incidit Remis, Hirt. B. G. 8, 12, 3: incommodi, id. ib. 8, 1 fin.: nobis quoniam prima animi ingenique negata sors est, secundam ac mediam teneamus, Liv. 22, 29, 9: puer post avi mortem in nullam sortem bonorum natus (opp. omnium heredi bonorum), to no share of the property, id. 1, 34, 3: praedae mala sors, Ov. M. 13, 485: utrius vitae sortem legant, Just. 1, 6, 6: servitutis, id. 6, 5, 1.—

2. In partic., in mercant. lang. (prop. fortune, money; hence), capital bearing interest, principal: et sors et fenus, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 122; 5, 2, 38; 3, 1, 34; 3, 1, 64; 3, 1, 70; 3, 1, 84; Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 35; Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3; Liv. 6, 14; 6, 15; Plin. praef. 23; Mart. 5, 42, 3; Dig. 33, 2, 24; Inscr. Orell. 4405; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, 65, and id. ib. 5, 183 Müll.—

E. A rank, class, order (late Lat.): ex turbā imae sortis, Amm. 14, 6, 25.