Sor-tĭentes

sortĭor, ītus, 4, v. dep. n. and a. [sors].

Neutr., to cast or draw lots:

coniciam sortes in sitellam et sortiar Tibi et Chalino,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 34:

cum praetores designati sortirentur et M. Metello obtigisset, ut is de pecuniis repetundis quaereret,

drew lots for the judges, appointed the judges by lot, Cic. Verr. 1, 8, 21; Quint. 3, 10, 1: consules comparare inter se aut sortiri jussi, to draw lots for the provinces, Liv. 38, 35, 9:

sortiti nocte singuli per ordinem intrārunt,

Quint. 4, 2, 72:

dum legiones de ordine agminis sortiuntur,

Tac. H. 2, 41:

de altero consulatu,

Suet. Claud. 7.—Hence, Sor-tĭentes, The Lot-drawers (a transl. of the Gr. Klêroumenoi), the name of a comedy by Diphilus, Plaut. Cas. prol. 32.—

Act., to draw or cast lots for, to fix, assign, or appoint by lot, to allot; also esp. in the perfect tenses, to obtain or receive by lot (freq. and class.).

With acc.:

tribus,

Cic. Agr. 2, 8, 21:

provinciam,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 25:

provincias,

id. Att. 1, 13, 5:

duas Gallias,

id. ib. 1, 19, 2:

ut consules inter se provincias compararent sortirenturve,

Liv. 42, 31:

judices,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17, § 42; 2, 2, 18, § 44:

judices per praetorem urbanum,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 2:

aliquos ad ignominiam,

id. Clu. 46, 129:

dicas,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 17, § 42 fin.:

nec regna vini sortiere talis,

Hor. C. 1, 4, 18: aequā lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos, decides the fate of, etc., id. ib. 3, 1, 15:

peregrinam (provinciam) sortitus est,

Liv. 39, 45:

ex praeturā ulteriorem sortitus Hispaniam,

Suet. Caes. 18; Plin. Ep. 6, 22 fin. —

With rel.-clause:

ut P. Furius et Cn. Servilius inter se sortirentur, uter citeriorem Hispaniam obtineret,

Liv. 42, 4, 2:

consules sortiti, uter dedicaret,

id. 2, 8, 6; 24, 10, 2:

uter patriā decederet,

Vell. 1, 1, 4:

sortiri, quid loquare,

Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 98:

num sortiuntur inter se, quae declinet, quae non?

id. Fat. 20, 46.—

Transf. (mostly poet. and not ante-Aug.).

To share, divide, distribute:

pariter laborem Sortiti,

shared the labor, Verg. A. 8, 445:

vices,

id. ib. 3, 634:

periculum,

id. ib. 9, 174.—

To choose, select:

subolem armento sortire quot annis,

Verg. G. 3, 71:

fortunam (i.e. locum) oculis,

id. A. 12, 920:

matrimonium,

Just. 26, 3, 8.—

In gen., to obtain, receive a thing (mostly in the tempp. perff.; not ante-Aug.):

Tectosagi mediterranea Asiae sortiti sunt,

Liv. 38, 16:

si emancipatus uxore ducta filium fuerit sortitus,

Dig. 37, 4, 3, § 5:

gens Claudia regnum in plebem sortita,

Liv. 3, 58:

amicum,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 53; 2, 6, 94; id. A. P. 92:

si Maeonium vatem sortita fuisses,

Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 21; id. M. 2, 241; 3, 124; 11, 758; Suet. Aug. 99 al.:

quidam sortiti metuentem sabbata patrem,

Juv. 14, 96:

venerabile ingenium,

id. 15, 144:

fata tam tristia,

Sen. Phoen. 245:

reliqua rerum tuarum post te alium atque alium dominum sortientur,

Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 4 Döring ad loc.— Pass. part. sortitus, v. sortio fin. — Adv.: sortītō, by lot:

sacerdotem sortito capere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 126; S. C. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 8; Suet. Aug. 30; 47.— Transf., by fate, by destiny (= sorte, or lege naturae):

tibi sortito id obtigit,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 25; Hor. Epod. 4, 1.