LOT Copy link • LOTPROP., sors (general term, also = lottery ticket): sortitio, sortitus (a drawing of lots): by lot, sorte; sortitione; sortito (after the lot has decided): to cause anything to be decided by lot, aliquid ad sortem revocare; aliquid sorti committere or permittere; aliquid in sortem conjicere: they caused it to be decided by lot, which of them, etc., sortiti sunt, uter (with a subjunctive): without lot, extra sortem (in an election, etc.): to consult lots, sortibus consulere de aliqua re or de aliquo: I obtain anything by lot, aliquid sorte mihi evenit; aliquid sortior: to make the lots equal, sortes aequare: to cast the lots into the urn or vessel, sortes in hydriam (or urnam) conjicere, dejicere; sortes in sitellam ponere (general term): nomina in urnam conjicere (if the lots contain names, e.g., in decimation, in conscription, etc.): to draw a lot, sortem ducere: to draw lots, sortiri (general term): sortitionem facere (to cause to be decided by lot): to draw lots among one another, sortiri inter se: to draw lots respecting anything or person, sortiri aliquid or aliquem and (in the Silver Age) de re (general term); aliquid ad sortem revocare, aliquid sorti committere, permittere (instead of deciding it in any other way): to draw lots again about any person or thing, subsortiri aliquid or aliquem (e.g., judicem, in the place of one previously chosen, Cic.): a lot falls or comes out, sors exit, excidit: when my lot was the first that was drawn, cum sors mea prima exiisset: the lot falls to me, sors me contingit. Figuratively. Position or circumstances in life, fortune, sors; fortuna; fortunae (circumstances, good or bad): a fortunate lot, fortuna florens; fortunae secundre: an unfortunate lot, fortuna misera: the common lot, sors communis: this is the common lot, haec omnibus accidunt: to be contented with one’s lot, sorte sua contentum vivere (☞ sorte sua gaudere is rather poetical): not to be contented with one’s lot, fortunas suas accusare: I have a happy lot, bene mecum agitur: I have an unhappy lot, vitam miseram dego: to pity anybody’s lot, alicujus sortem miserari.