Lōt Copy link • Lōt, m. indecl., = Λώτ, Lot, son of Haran, and nephew of Abraham, Prud. Psych. praef. 32; Alcim. 2, 405; Vulg. Gen. 11, 27.
lot Copy link Outline I. Decision by hazardII. Fortune, circumstances1. sors (poet. and late)2. fortūnaIII. A portion; esp. of land • lot: I. Decision by hazard: sors, tis, f.: cf. Cic. Div. 2, 41, init.: the matter is ultimately decided by l., res revocatur ad s., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, 127: the pl. often denotes the billets used in drawing l.s: hence, to draw l.s, sortibus uti (gen. term), Cic. Div. 2, 41, 87: more precisely, sortes miscere et ducere (to shuffle and draw), ib. § 86: but also sortem ducere [sors ducitur], Cic. Verr. 4, 64, 143: the abl. is used adverb.: he got the province of Sicily by l., ei sorte provincia Sicilia obvenit, ib. 2, 2, 6, 17. To decide by l., sortior, 4: foll. by rel. clause, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 98 (non considerare sed quasi sortiri quid loquare): also with inter se, id. Fat. 20, 46: Liv.: also to obtain by l. (with acc.), Liv. 39, 45: hence, the act of casting lots or deciding by lot, sortitio, Pl.: Cic.: also (not in Cic.), sortitus, ūs, Pl.: Virg.: adv. sortito, by casting l.: to be chosen by l., sortito capi, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, 126. Fig.: it falls to any one's l., contingit (with dat.): v. to happen (2). II. Fortune, circumstances: 1. sors (poet. and late): content with one's l., sorte contentus, Hor. Sat. 1, 1, init.: Tac. 2. fortūna: v. fortune. (In this sense the word need often not be expressed literally: which of these two has the more enviable l.? uter horum beatior? O happy l. of the husbandman! O fortunatos agricolas! Virg. G. 2, 458.) III. A portion; esp. of land: ăgellus, modus agri v. plot. At an auction, tĭtŭlus (?).
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.
Lot Copy link Outline I. als Gewicht: semuncia. ...II. Bleilot: perpendiculum. ... Lot, I. als Gewicht: semuncia. zwei L., uncia: ein L. schwer, semuncialis: zwei L. schwer, uncialis. II. Bleilot: perpendiculum.