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Type of divination by bibliomancy
The Sortes Homericae (Latin for "Homeric lots"), a type of divination by bibliomancy, involved drawing a random sentence or line from the works of Homer
Sortes_Homericae
Roman divination method
Sortes (Latin singular: sors) were a frequent method of divination among the ancient Romans. The method involved the drawing of lots (sortes) to obtain
Sortes_(ancient_Rome)
Form of divination by bibliomancy
seems to have been modeled on the ancient Roman sortes as seen in the Sortes Homericae, and later the Sortes Sanctorum. Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie
Sortes_Vergilianae
Method of divination
was common in late antiquity and had pagan precedents in the Sortes Homericae and Sortes Vergilianae. It was nevertheless condemned by numerous church
Sortes_biblicae
Use of books in divination
Roman practice of sortes ('sortilege, divination by drawing lots') which specialized into sortes Homericae, sortes Virgilianae, and sortes Sanctorum, using
Bibliomancy
2011 novel by Madeline Miller
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The_Song_of_Achilles
Ancient Greek poet
mythology Homeric psychology Homer's Ithaca List of Homeric characters Sortes Homericae Tabulae Iliacae Telemachy The Golden Bough Trojan Battle Order Trojan
Homer
2018 novel by Pat Barker
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The_Silence_of_the_Girls
1st-century AD Greek grammarian and rhetorician
Blood rain Heraclitus The Iliad Bookshop Medieval legends Brutus of Troy Francus Matter of Rome Sortes Homericae Weighing of souls Where Troy Once Stood
Heraclitus_(commentator)
Event from Greek mythology
Blood rain Heraclitus The Iliad Bookshop Medieval legends Brutus of Troy Francus Matter of Rome Sortes Homericae Weighing of souls Where Troy Once Stood
Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies
English translation of an Ancient Greek phrase
Blood rain Heraclitus The Iliad Bookshop Medieval legends Brutus of Troy Francus Matter of Rome Sortes Homericae Weighing of souls Where Troy Once Stood
Ever_to_Excel
Attic red-figure amphora from c. 510 BCE
Blood rain Heraclitus The Iliad Bookshop Medieval legends Brutus of Troy Francus Matter of Rome Sortes Homericae Weighing of souls Where Troy Once Stood
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SORTES HOMERICAE
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Italian
Italian : from the personal name Forte, from Late Latin fortis ‘strong’ (see Fort) or from a short form of a medieval personal name formed with this element, as for example Fortebraccio (‘strong arm’).Slovenian : shortened form of the personal name Fortunat, Latin Fortunatus.English : variant of Fort.
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English (Norwich)
English (Norwich) : variant of Moat.
Male
Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian form of Latin Martinus, MORTEN means "of/like Mars."
Female
Scandinavian
Short form of Scandinavian Dorotea, DORTE means "gift of God."
Female
Portuguese
Portuguese form of Spanish Dolores, DORES means "sorrows."
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : topographic name for someone who lived by or in a deep valley, from Middle English, Old French gorge ‘gorge’, ‘ravine’ (from Old French gorge ‘throat’). There are various places in England and France named with this word, and the surname may be a habitational name from any of these.German : unexplained.A family by the name of Gorges originated in the village of Gorges near Périers in Normandy, France, where Ralph de Gorges was living in the late 11th century. A branch of the family was established in England when Thomas de Gorges lost his lands to the King of France. He became warden of Henry III’s manor of Powerstock, Devon.
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English
English : probably a variant spelling of Searles.
Male
Irish
Variant spelling of Irish Gaelic Somhairle, SORLEY means "summer traveler."
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English
English : unexplained; probably a variant of Goate which may derive either from Middle English gat (Old English gÄt), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept goats or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a goat in some way, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a watercourse or sluice, Middle English gote. Possibly in some instances the name may be an altered form of Coates.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Götz (see Goetz).
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Spanish American
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : status name for a cottager (see Cotter 2), or a topographic name for someone who lived in a relatively humble dwelling (from Middle English cotes, plural (or genitive) of cote, cott), or a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this word, especially Coates in Cambridgeshire and Cotes in Leicestershire.Scottish : variant of Coutts.Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Kotz or German Koths, from a variant of the medieval personal name Godo (see Gottfried).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a maker of cord or string or a nickname for a habitual wearer of decorative ties and ribbons, from the genitive or plural form of Old French corde ‘string’ (see Coard).Variant spelling of German Kordes.French : habitational name from any of several places called Cordes.
Male
Scottish
Scottish surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Gaelic word forba, FORBES means "district, field."Â
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, PORTER means "doorkeeper."
Surname or Lastname
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese : from corte ‘court’ (Latin cohors ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’, genitive cohortis), applied as an occupational name for someone who worked at a manorial court or a topographic name for someone who lived in or by one.English : variant spelling of Court.Americanized spelling of Korte.
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English
English : from the comparative form of Middle English schort ‘short’, hence a distinguishing nickname for the shorter of two closely associated people with the same personal name (for example, members of the same household).
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English
English : patronymic from Storm.
Male
English
English unisex name derived from the name of a perennial herb, "sorrel," from Old French surele, from Frankish *sur, SORREL means "sour."
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English porter ‘doorkeeper’, ‘gatekeeper’ (Old French portier). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. As an American surname, this has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other European languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner) and North German Poertner.English : occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Old French porteo(u)r (Late Latin portator, from portare ‘to carry or convey’).Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch portere ‘doorkeeper’. Compare 1.Dutch : status name for a freeman (burgher) of a seaport, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : adoption of the English or Dutch name in place of some Ashkenazic name of similar sound or meaning.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Horton.
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