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..."- M
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..." - P
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..." - T
Liber XLI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...propter belli magnitudinem prouincia consularis facta. [Gracchus eam sortitur, Histriam Claudius.] Scipio et Laeuinus Galliam in duas diuisam..."