sortes

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

Found 53 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.6: … ae. Scipioni obvenit Syria, L. Domitio Gallia; Philippus et Cotta privato consilio praetereuntur, neque eorum sortes deiciuntur. In reliquas provincias praetores mittuntur. Neque exspectant, quod superioribus annis acciderat, …

Cicero, De Divinatione 2.84: … i paruisset. quae si suscipiamus, pedis offensio nobis et abruptio corrigiae et sternumenta erunt observanda. Sortes restant et Chaldaei, ut ad vates veniamus et ad somnia.

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.