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The uncertainty of my judgment is so equally balanced in most occurrences, that I could willingly refer it to be decided by the chance of a die: and I observe, with great consideration of our human infirmity, the examples that the divine history itself has left us of this custom of referring to fortune and chance the determination of election in doubtful things: "Sors cecidit super Matthiam."
The statements regarding the original number of the augurs in particular vary. On the number of the pontifices comp. Staatsrecht, ii. 20. It is only an unreflecting misconception that can discover in this usage a reminiscence of ancient human sacrifices. I. XII. Nature of the Roman Gods I. XII. Priests 15. -Sors- from -serere-, to place in row.
This will be reconcilable with all that Pliny says, as well as with his being married when "young"; for he would then be 32 or 33, and his bride 22 or 23; for the daughter of Agricola was born when her father was quaestor in Asia "sors quaesturae provinciam Asiam dedit ... auctus est ibi filia."
Here is a sors Meredithiana, taken from Rhoda Fleming, one of the simplest of the books: "Algernon waited dinnerless until the stealthy going minutes distended and swelled monstrous and horrible as viper-bitten bodies, and the venerable Signior Time became of unhealthy hue."
In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura et nos in aeternum Exilium impositura cymbae.
In time past it was sors pro sorte that is, the principal only for the principal; but now, beside that which is above the principal properly called Usura, we challenge Foenus that is, commodity of soil and fruits of the earth, If not the ground itself.
The statements regarding the original number of the augurs in particular vary. On the number of the pontifices comp. Staatsrecht, ii. 20. It is only an unreflecting misconception that can discover in this usage a reminiscence of ancient human sacrifices. I. XII. Nature of the Roman Gods I. XII. Priests 15. -Sors- from -serere-, to place in row.
"Scire mori sors prima viris, sed proxima cogi," and again "Victurosque dei celant, ut vivere durent, Felix esse mori." So in cursing Crastinus, Caesar's fierce centurion, he wishes him not to die, but to retain sensibility after death, in other words to be immortal. The sentiment occurs, not once but a hundred times, that of all pleasures death is the greatest.
The word used is first Fortuna and then Sors. This shows how little real difference there is between the two apparently contradictory conceptions. 'Chance would have it so. 'It was fated to be. The sting of both phrases their pleasant bitterness when played with, their quality of poison when believed lies in their denial of the value of human endeavour.
I agree, and there are still sadder things; but I shall answer you: Sors tua mortalis, non est mortale quod optas. Ovid, Met. "You have a man's fate, and a god's desires." Once again, it seems that the nature of every principle of things is the Creator's secret.
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