Sortes Homericae
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Sortes Homericae
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The Sortes Homericae, a type of divination by bibliomancy, involved drawing a random sentence or line from the works of Homer to answer a question or to predict the future. In the Roman world it co-existed with the various forms of the sortes, such as the Sortes Virgilianae and their Christian successor the Sortes Sanctorum. Socrates reportedly used this practice to determine the day of his execution. Brutus also is reported to have used this practice, which informed him Pompey would lose the ba
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