I.a casting or drawing of lots, a choosing or determining by lot, sortition (class.): deos quaeso, mihi ut sortitio eveniat, * Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 38: “dum aequantur sortes, dum sortitio fit,” Cic. Cornel. Fragm. 1, 13, p. 449 Orell.; Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 1: “aedilicia,” Cic. Planc. 22, 53: “praerogativa,” id. Phil. 2, 33, 82: “provinciarum,” id. ib. 3, 10, 24; id. Clu. 46, 128; id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 2; Suet. Tib. 35 al.; plur., id. Aug. 29.
sortītĭo , ōnis, f. sortior,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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