gregoras

Updated: June 5, 2025

Nicephorus Gregoras frequently opened his Psalter at random in order that there he might find support in the trial under which he laboured. And even in these enlightened days, it is by no means rare to find superstitious men and women using the sacred Scriptures as the old Greeks and Romans used the Sibylline oracles dipping into them by chance for indications of the Divine Will.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood