sortitur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sortior, sortiri, sortitus sum:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
cast or draw lots; obtain by lot; appoint by lot; choose;
sg. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...feras, nunc implere sinus securos gaudet et absens sortitur dominos, ne laceretur, auis. Quid numerem currus ter denaque..."Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...publicis iudiciis non accidit, quoniam praetor certa lege sortitur, principum autem et senatus cognitionibus frequens est et populi..."Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...altum auspiciis manifesta fides; sic fata deum rex sortitur voluitque vices, is vertitur ordo), pauca tibi e multis..."Liber XLI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...propter belli magnitudinem prouincia consularis facta. [Gracchus eam sortitur, Histriam Claudius.] Scipio et Laeuinus Galliam in duas diuisam..."