-
divination by
drawing lots")
which specialized into
sortes Homericae,
sortes Virgilianae, and
sortes Sanctorum,
using the
texts of Homer, Virgil, and the Bible...
-
their following fortunes were placed;
whereupon grew the word of
Sortes Virgilianae, when by
sudden opening Virgil's book they
lighted upon some
verse of...
- Evelyn-White. [2] Apollodorus,
Bibliotheca 2.5.11 Fulgentius,
Expositio Virgilianae continentiae secundum philosophos moralis[full
citation needed] Ersch...
- co-existed with the
various forms of the sortes, such as the
Sortes Virgilianae and
their Christian successor the
Sortes Sanctorum.
Socrates reportedly...
- to use for a film on the
Faustus myth.
Playing a
variation on
Sortes virgilianae, his eyes fall on the
closing words of the
chorus in Marlowe's Doctor...
-
Library ****ociation award. The plot
explores the
concept of the
Sortes Virgilianae. The
First Verse was a
bestseller in Spanish,
published as
Literati (DestinoLibro...
- manteía, prophecy) sortilege: by the
casting of lots, or
sortes sortes virgilianae: by Vergil's
Aeneid spasmatomancy: by
convulsions (alteration of spasmodomancy...
-
adopted mother of Oedipus. Hesiod,
Theogony 274 Fulgentius,
Expositio Virgilianae continentiae secundum philosophos moralis Ersch,
Johann Samuel (1830)...
-
chronological order):
Mythologiae (Mythologies)
Expositio continentiae Virgilianae secundum philosophos moralis (The
Exposition of the
Content of Virgil...
- Press, 1992, p. 11. (in French) Fulgentius,
Virgile dévoilé:
Expositio Virgilianae continentiae,
Etienne Wolff (ed.),
Presses Univ. Septentrion, 2009, pp...
