Aeneid Bibliomancy Reading

This oracle points to a randomly selected line from The Aeneid. The surrounding passages are provided for context.

 

Your passage is from BOOK X: FATHERS AND SONS.

 

For Context:

BOOK X: FATHERS AND SONS

Gape wide, O earth, and draw me down alive!
Or, O ye pitying winds, a wretch relieve!
On sands or shelves the splitting vessel drive;

Or set me shipwreck’d on some desert shore,
Where no Rutulian eyes may see me more,

Unknown to friends, or foes, or conscious Fame,
Lest she should follow, and my flight proclaim.”

Thus Turnus rav’d, and various fates revolv’d:
The choice was doubtful, but the death resolv’d.

And now the sword, and now the sea took place,
That to revenge, and this to purge disgrace.

Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main,
By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain.

Thrice he the sword assay’d, and thrice the flood;
But Juno, mov’d with pity, both withstood.

And thrice repress’d his rage; strong gales supplied,
And push’d the vessel o’er the swelling tide.

At length she lands him on his native shores,
And to his father’s longing arms restores.

Meantime, by Jove’s impulse, Mezentius arm’d,
Succeeding Turnus, with his ardour warm’d

His fainting friends, reproach’d their shameful flight,
Repell’d the victors, and renew’d the fight.