Lusores vicissim sortiri volunt.

Lusores is the nominative plural of lusor, meaning player.

• lusor = one player
• lusores = players

In this sentence, it is the subject, the people doing the wanting.

The main finite verb is volunt, meaning they want. Since volunt is 3rd person plural, we expect a plural subject. Lusores fits that role perfectly: the players want.

Even though lusores could also look like an accusative plural form in some contexts, here the sentence structure makes it clear that it is the subject.

Vicissim is an adverb. It means something like:

• in turn
• one after another
• alternately
• by turns

It tells us how the action is done. So the players want to do the action in turn, not all at once.

Because sortiri is a deponent verb.

Deponent verbs look passive in form, but they have an active meaning. So:

• sortior = I draw lots / I allot by lot
• sortiri = to draw lots

A learner used to verbs like amare or monere may expect an infinitive in -re, but deponent verbs often have infinitives in -ri.

Sortiri is the present infinitive of sortior, sortiri, sortitus sum.

It means things like:

• to draw lots
• to decide by lot
• to obtain by lot
• to assign by lot

In this sentence, the important point is that it is the verb that depends on volunt: the players want to draw lots or want to do something by lot.

After volo (I want), Latin commonly uses an infinitive to express what someone wants to do.

So:

• volunt = they want
• sortiri = to draw lots

Together: they want to draw lots

This is very similar to English want + infinitive.

Volunt is the 3rd person plural present of volo, meaning they want.

It is plural because the subject, lusores, is plural:

• lusor vult = the player wants
• lusores volunt = the players want

In English, we say want to do. In Latin, the infinitive itself already carries that idea, so no separate word for to is needed.

So:

• English: want to draw lots
• Latin: volunt sortiri

The infinitive sortiri already means to draw lots.

Latin has no definite article and no indefinite article. So there is no separate word for the or a/an.

That means lusores can mean:

• players
• the players

Which one is best depends on the context and the translation being used.

Not as much as in English. Latin word order is relatively flexible because the endings show the grammatical roles.

So all of these could be possible with little or no change in basic meaning:

• Lusores vicissim sortiri volunt
• Vicissim lusores sortiri volunt
• Lusores sortiri vicissim volunt

The given order is natural and clear, but Latin does not rely on word order as heavily as English does.

In sense, vicissim mainly goes with sortiri. It describes how they are carrying out the action: they want to draw lots in turn.

Because Latin adverbs can be placed somewhat freely, it does not have to stand right next to the verb it modifies. But semantically, it is describing the action of sortiri.

Possibly, but not necessarily in a problematic way.

Depending on context, sortiri can be used with an expressed object, such as the thing being assigned or obtained by lot. But Latin often leaves such details unstated when they are obvious from context.

So this sentence can stand on its own, with the general sense that the players want to draw lots in turn or want to determine something by lot in turn.