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

King Latinus entertains Aeneas, and promises him his only daughter, Lavinia, the heiress of his crown. Turnus, being in love with her, favoured by her mother, and by Juno and Alecto, breaks the treaty which was made, and engages in his quarrel Mezentius, Camilla, Messapus, and many other of the neighbouring princes; whose forces, and the names of their commanders are particularly related.

And thou, O matron of immortal fame,
Here dying, to the shore hast left thy name;

Cajeta still the place is call’d from thee,
The nurse of great Aeneas’ infancy.

Here rest thy bones in rich Hesperia’s plains;
Thy name (’tis all a ghost can have) remains.

Now, when the prince her fun’ral rites had paid,
He plow’d the Tyrrhene seas with sails display’d.

From land a gentle breeze arose by night,
Serenely shone the stars, the moon was bright,
And the sea trembled with her silver light.

Now near the shelves of Circe’s shores they run,
(Circe the rich, the daughter of the Sun,)

A dang’rous coast: the goddess wastes her days
In joyous songs; the rocks resound her lays:

In spinning, or the loom, she spends the night,
And cedar brands supply her father’s light.

From hence were heard, rebellowing to the main,
The roars of lions that refuse the chain,

The grunts of bristled boars, and groans of bears,
And herds of howling wolves that stun the sailors’ ears.