sortilegi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sortilegus, sortilega, sortilegum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
prophetic, oracular;
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.) - Entry →sortilegus, sortilegi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
soothsayer, fortune-teller;
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quaerimus ultra? Iuppiter est quodcumque uides, quodcumque moueris. sortilegis egeant dubii semperque futuris casibus ancipites: me non oracula..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...facundia praeceps, utiliumque sagax rerum et diuina futuri sortilegis non discrepuit sententia Delphis. Carmine qui tragico uilem certauit..."
