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sortem

sortem is a Latin form of sors, meaning “lot, chance; fate, destiny; oracle”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 134 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.1.2: … aut spati aut copiarum habiturum exercitum populi Romani ad omnia persequenda; non esse autem alicui civitati sortem incommodi recusandam, si tali mora reliquae possent se vindicare in libertatem.

Plautus, Mostellaria 3.1.592: Sortem accipe.

All forms of sors (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.