Divers notable things of old have likewise been foretold and known by casting of Virgilian lots;
Divers notable things of old have likewise been foretold and known by casting of Virgilian lots; yea, in matters of no less importance than the obtaining of the Roman empire, as it happened to Alexander Severus, who, trying his fortune at the said kind of lottery, did hit upon this verse written in the Sixth of the Aeneids—
Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento.
Know, Roman, that thy business is to reign.
