Socrates reportedly dreamed of a certain verse from the Iliad, and interpreted it as foretelling the day of his execution.
[1] Before the Battle of Pharsalus, a verse of Homer occurred to Brutus which suggested that Pompey would be defeated.
[2][3] The emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus (r. 217–218) is known to have used sortes Homericae properly speaking, where a verse was chosen by lot that supposedly foretold his fate that he would not last long on the imperial throne.
[4] The "Homer Oracle", or Homeromanteion, was a method of divination found in Greek Magical Papyrus 121.
After a series of ritual preparations, the user rolls a die three times, consulting a verse according to the resultant number.