Sortes Virgilianae (維吉爾籤卜)

Rome's own bibliomancy — the lot of Virgil: hold the question, open the Aeneid, and the passage under your finger is the sors. Practiced from the Empire through the seventeenth century, and the historically ATTESTED draws are this engine's anchors, sitting at their exact canonical citations: the Historia Augusta has Hadrian drawing VI.808–812 (quis procul ille autem ramis insignis olivae — the vision of Numa, read as his succession), and the famous Bodleian story has Charles I drawing IV.615–620, Dido's curse (at bello audacis populi vexatus et armis…). THE CORPUS: the complete Aeneid — all twelve books, 9,883 Latin lines verbatim — with the STANDARD editorial line numbering recovered from the witness's own printed apparatus and machine-locked at load: every book's maximum equals the published count (I:756 … XII:952, from Arma virumque cano to vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras), numbering strictly monotone, the edition's omitted line numbers kept as the gaps they are, byte-exact checksum. Draw by explicit citation (for a physical sortes) or the deterministic seeded draw with context lines each side. NO translation — the Latin is the sors. The catalogue's sortes family now spans five scripts: Greek (Homeromanteion), Chinese (temple 靈籤), Japanese (omikuji), Persian (فال حافظ), Latin (this). Bibliomancy for reflection and the study of a two-thousand-year-old practice — not prediction, not advice.

Cost: 2 TIAN Points per call. tRPC procedure sortes.draw.