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After the play was over, most of the company went away; only a select party of beaux esprits stayed to supper; they were standing at the table at which the count had been reading: several volumes of French plays and novels were lying there, and Clarence Hervey, taking up one of them, cried, "Come, let us try our fate by the Sortes Virgilianae."
The sortes Homericae and sortes Virgilianae which succeeded the sortes Praenestinae, gave rise to the same means used among christians of casually opening the sacred books for directions in important circumstances; to learn the consequence of events and what they had to fear among their rulers. Kennet's Roman Antiquities, Lib.
'Perhaps, in some respects, he may merit better usage at our hands, said Alan; 'for if he has described vice plainly, it seems to have been for the purpose of rendering it generally abhorred. 'Well, said the seaman, 'I have heard of the Sortes Virgilianae, and I dare say the Sortes Sallustianae are as true every tittle.
Even as early as Hadrian the Sortes Virgilianae were consulted from an idea that there was a sanctity about the pages of his book; and, as is well known, this superstitious custom was continued until comparatively modern times.
"So! this is a concerted plan between you two, I see," continued her ladyship, with an air of pique: "you have contrived prettily de me dire des verites! One says, 'Let us try our fate by the Sortes Virgilianae; the other has dexterously put a mark in the book, to make it open upon a lesson for the naughty child." Belinda and Mr.
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!
Lady Delacour opened the book, which was a volume of Marmontel's Tales. "La femme comme il y en a peu!" exclaimed Hervey. "Who will ever more have faith in the Sortes Virgilianae?" said Lady Delacour, laughing; but whilst she laughed she went closer to a candle, to read the page which she had opened. Belinda and Clarence Hervey followed her.
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.
Whereupon grew the word of Sortes Virgilianae, when, by sudden opening Virgil's book, they lighted upon any verse of his making, whereof the histories of the emperors' lives are full: as of Albinus the governor of our island, who in his childhood met with this verse And altogether not without ground, since both the oracles of Delphos and Sibylla's prophecies were wholly delivered in verses.
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.
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