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"Sortes Virgilianae." Upon what principle could it have been that Virgil was adopted as the oracular fountain in such a case? An author so limited even as to bulk, and much more limited as regards compass of thought and variety or situation or character, was about the worst that pagan literature offered.
Anyhow, the dead poet was enthroned Duke of Mantua; Eustachio and Leonardo became Regents, with the style of Consuls, and it was provided that in doubtful cases reference should be made to the Sortes Virgilianae. And truly, if we may believe the chronicles, the arrangement worked for a time surprisingly well.
And Du Cange himself notices, in his Glossary, the relation which this bore to the Pagan Sortes. 'It was, says he, 'a fantastical way of divination, invented by the Jews, not unlike the Sortes Virgilianae of the heathens.
She had another such flower on her breast. A young girl's graceful compliment, that is all, no doubt, no doubt. "Incipit effari, mediaque in voce resistit." A remembrance of an ancient superstition flashed through the master's mind, and he determined to try the Sortes Virgilianae. He shut the volume, and opened it again at a venture. The story of Laocoon!
It must, therefore, be allowed to stand upon the records of sortilegy, that in the main direction of his life not, indeed, as to its spirit, but as to its form and local connections a Protestant divine of much merit, and chiefly in what regards practice, and of the class most opposed to superstition, took his determining impulse from a variety of the Sortes Virgilianae.
It would be no longer a turn-up card, and some new choice of trumps would have to be made, somehow; by sortes Virgilianae, or what not. Better have another deal. Gwen gave up the point, under protest, and Miss Dickenson dealt. Spades were trumps, this time. It chanced that Gwen, in this deal, held the Knave and Queen of hearts.
Happily the tree is bulky, and within but a few yards of the speculator; and the great enigma of the Calvinistic church is answered in favour of Madame de Warenne's protege, whose propensities and proclivities at that period did not very strongly indicate his claim to a place among the elect. Valentine remembered the sortes Virgilianae the Wesleyan's drawing of inferences from Bible texts.
I believed that he was lying, because I never knew him to make a good joke in his life. And now the murder is out." They asked me whether I had put anything else in the Times. Nothing, I said, except the Sortes Virgilianae, which Lord John remembered well.
She had another such flower on her breast. A young girl's graceful compliment, that is all, no doubt, no doubt. "Incipit effari, mediaque in voce resistit." A remembrance of an ancient superstition flashed through the master's mind, and he determined to try the Sortes Virgilianae. He shut the volume, and opened it again at a venture. The story of Laocooen!
Ovid tells, that when he prayed for the soul of Anchises, the custom was strange in Italy. 'Hunc morem Aeneas, pietatis idoneus auctor Attulit in terras, juste Latine, tuas. The 'Biblicae' Sortes, which I have seen consulted on the altar, are a parody on the 'Sortes Virgilianae. Our numerous altars in one church are heathen: the Jews, who are monotheists, have but one altar in a church.
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