sortilegus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sortĭlĕgus, a, um, adj. [sors-lego], foretelling, prophetic.

I adj.: Delphi, Hor. A. P. 219.—

II Subst.: sortĭlĕgus , i, m., a fortune-teller , soothsayer , diviner by lots or from oracles, Varr. L. L. 6, § 65 Müll.; Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132; 2, 53, 109; Luc. 9, 581.

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