Sortes

Hold a question in mind and open Homer, Virgil, Marcus Aurelius or Dante at random. One line falls, in the original and in a new translation.

Open one line from a curated pool of passages.

• Iliad 1.80–83
• Iliad 1.218
• Iliad 2.292–294
• Iliad 2.299–300
• Iliad 3.65–66
• Iliad 4.320–323
• Iliad 5.440–442
• Iliad 6.146–149
• Iliad 6.429–432
• Iliad 6.488–489
• Iliad 7.282
• Iliad 8.140
• Iliad 8.502–504
• Iliad 9.312–313
• Iliad 9.318–320
• Iliad 9.406–409
• Iliad 9.496–498
• Iliad 10.224–226
• Iliad 11.514–515
• Iliad 13.237–238
• Iliad 14.80–81
• Iliad 14.126–127
• Iliad 16.30–32
• Iliad 17.446–447
• Iliad 18.107–110
• Iliad 19.65–66
• Iliad 19.308
• Iliad 20.250
• Iliad 21.110–113
• Iliad 22.304–305
• Iliad 23.315–318
• Iliad 24.503–506
• Iliad 24.522–524
• Iliad 24.525–526
• Iliad 24.527–530
• Iliad 24.602–604
• Odyssey 1.32–34
• Odyssey 1.351–353
• Odyssey 2.270–272
• Odyssey 2.276–277
• Odyssey 3.26–28
• Odyssey 4.197–198
• Odyssey 4.238–239
• Odyssey 5.118–120
• Odyssey 5.219–220
• Odyssey 5.221–224
• Odyssey 6.206–208
• Odyssey 7.215
• Odyssey 8.167–168
• Odyssey 8.479–481
• Odyssey 8.546–547
• Odyssey 9.34–36
• Odyssey 9.366–367
• Odyssey 10.174–177
• Odyssey 10.472–474
• Odyssey 11.367
• Odyssey 11.489–491
• Odyssey 12.208
• Odyssey 13.293–295
• Odyssey 14.83–84
• Odyssey 15.72–74
• Odyssey 15.398–401
• Odyssey 17.347
• Odyssey 18.130–131
• Odyssey 18.132–135
• Odyssey 19.162–163
• Odyssey 19.329–331
• Odyssey 19.560–561
• Odyssey 20.18–21
• Odyssey 20.199–200
• Odyssey 21.293–294
• Odyssey 22.411–412
• Odyssey 23.209–212
• Odyssey 23.215–217
• Odyssey 24.531–532
• Aeneid 1.198–199
• Aeneid 1.200–203
• Aeneid 1.207
• Aeneid 1.462
• Aeneid 1.630
• Aeneid 2.704
• Aeneid 2.707–708
• Aeneid 2.726–729
• Aeneid 3.88–89
• Aeneid 3.315–316
• Aeneid 3.493–494
• Aeneid 4.28–29
• Aeneid 4.32–33
• Aeneid 4.361
• Aeneid 4.412
• Aeneid 5.305
• Aeneid 5.465
• Aeneid 5.709–710
• Aeneid 6.261
• Aeneid 6.687–689
• Aeneid 6.832–833
• Aeneid 7.130–132
• Aeneid 7.202–204
• Aeneid 7.229–230
• Aeneid 8.169–171
• Aeneid 8.364–365
• Aeneid 8.441–442
• Aeneid 9.210–212
• Aeneid 9.275–277
• Aeneid 9.296
• Aeneid 10.284
• Aeneid 10.375–376
• Aeneid 10.501–502
• Aeneid 11.110–111
• Aeneid 11.130–131
• Aeneid 11.425–427
• Aeneid 12.189–191
• Aeneid 12.435–437
• Meditations 1.1.1
• Meditations 1.3.1
• Meditations 1.12.1
• Meditations 2.8.1
• Meditations 2.9.1
• Meditations 3.2.1
• Meditations 3.12.1
• Meditations 4.17.1
• Meditations 4.31.1
• Meditations 4.43.1
• Meditations 5.6.1
• Meditations 5.18.1
• Meditations 5.22.1
• Meditations 6.6.1
• Meditations 6.7.1
• Meditations 6.19.1
• Meditations 6.39.1
• Meditations 6.48.1
• Meditations 7.7.1
• Meditations 7.8.1
• Meditations 7.22.1
• Meditations 7.59.1
• Meditations 8.16.1
• Meditations 8.33.1
• Meditations 8.59.1
• Meditations 9.5.1
• Meditations 9.8.1
• Meditations 9.35.1
• Meditations 10.4.1
• Meditations 10.16.1
• Meditations 10.21.1
• Meditations 11.24.1
• Meditations 11.29.1
• Meditations 11.34.1
• Meditations 11.35.1
• Meditations 12.6.1
• Meditations 12.19.1
• Meditations 12.22.1
• Meditations 12.29.1
• Inferno 1.1–3
• Inferno 1.85–87
• Inferno 2.72
• Inferno 2.88–90
• Inferno 3.14–15
• Inferno 4.80–81
• Inferno 5.94–96
• Inferno 6.74–75
• Inferno 8.106–108
• Inferno 9.61–63
• Inferno 10.91–93
• Inferno 14.63–66
• Inferno 15.91–93
• Inferno 16.118–120
• Inferno 23.28–30
• Inferno 24.52–54
• Inferno 26.118–120
• Inferno 27.22–24
• Inferno 34.139
• Purgatorio 1.19–21
• Purgatorio 3.121–123
• Purgatorio 5.13–15
• Purgatorio 8.1–3
• Purgatorio 10.124–126
• Purgatorio 11.16–18
• Purgatorio 11.100–102
• Purgatorio 13.109–111
• Purgatorio 15.104–105
• Purgatorio 16.82–84
• Purgatorio 17.88–90
• Purgatorio 18.19–21
• Purgatorio 19.22–24
• Purgatorio 22.73
• Purgatorio 24.1–3
• Purgatorio 27.139–142
• Purgatorio 30.49–51
• Purgatorio 31.52–54
• Purgatorio 33.142–145
• Paradiso 1.34
• Paradiso 3.70–72
• Paradiso 4.124–126
• Paradiso 5.73–75
• Paradiso 6.124
• Paradiso 8.139–141
• Paradiso 9.103–105
• Paradiso 13.130–132
• Paradiso 15.88–89
• Paradiso 16.79–81
• Paradiso 17.58–60
• Paradiso 18.4–6
• Paradiso 21.64–66
• Paradiso 23.46–48
• Paradiso 27.121–123
• Paradiso 29.94–96
• Paradiso 30.100–102
• Paradiso 31.85–87
• Paradiso 32.139–141
• Paradiso 33.142–145