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 VII: THE GATES OF WAR.

 

For Context:

BOOK VII: THE GATES OF WAR

To mount the Trojan troop. At his command
The steeds caparison’d with purple stand,

With golden trappings, glorious to behold,
And champ betwixt their teeth the foaming gold.

Then to his absent guest the king decreed
A pair of coursers born of heav’nly breed,

Who from their nostrils breath’d ethereal fire;
Whom Circe stole from her celestial sire,

By substituting mares produc’d on earth,
Whose wombs conceiv’d a more than mortal birth.

These draw the chariot which Latinus sends,
And the rich present to the prince commends.

Sublime on stately steeds the Trojans borne,
To their expecting lord with peace return.

But jealous Juno, from Pachynus’ height,
As she from Argos took her airy flight,
Beheld with envious eyes this hateful sight.

She saw the Trojan and his joyful train
Descend upon the shore, desert the main,

Design a town, and, with unhop’d success,
Th’ embassadors return with promis’d peace.

Then, pierc’d with pain, she shook her haughty head,
Sigh’d from her inward soul, and thus she said: