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 III: MONSTERS, OMENS AND SIGNS.

 

For Context:

BOOK III: MONSTERS, OMENS AND SIGNS

In the mid ocean lies, with large command,
And on its plains a hundred cities stand.

Another Ida rises there, and we
From thence derive our Trojan ancestry.

From thence, as ’tis divulg’d by certain fame,
To the Rhoetean shores old Teucrus came;

There fix’d, and there the seat of empire chose,
Ere Ilium and the Trojan tow’rs arose.

In humble vales they built their soft abodes,
Till Cybele, the mother of the gods,
With tinkling cymbals charm’d th’ Idaean woods,

She secret rites and ceremonies taught,
And to the yoke the savage lions brought.

Let us the land which Heav’n appoints, explore;
Appease the winds, and seek the Gnossian shore.

If Jove assists the passage of our fleet,
The third propitious dawn discovers Crete.’

Thus having said, the sacrifices, laid
On smoking altars, to the gods he paid:

A bull, to Neptune an oblation due,
Another bull to bright Apollo slew;

A milk-white ewe, the western winds to please,
And one coal-black, to calm the stormy seas.