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- Sortes_Astrampsychi comment "The Sortes Astrampsychi (The Lots of Astrampsychus), was a popular Greco-Roman fortune-telling guide written under the pseudonym Astrampsychus. The book contained instructions for throwing lots, or sortes, the result of which would be used to look up prewritten simple sentences by means of a numerical index. In essence, the procedure was similar to the I Ching. The text is known from a dozen of papyrus fragments, and from a Byzantine codex of the 9th or 10th century.".