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 I: A SHIPWRECK AND A RESCUE.

 

For Context:

BOOK I: A SHIPWRECK AND A RESCUE

Their hunger thus appeas’d, their care attends
The doubtful fortune of their absent friends:

Alternate hopes and fears their minds possess,
Whether to deem ’em dead, or in distress.

Above the rest, Aeneas mourns the fate
Of brave Orontes, and th’ uncertain state

Of Gyas, Lycus, and of Amycus.
The day, but not their sorrows, ended thus.

When, from aloft, almighty Jove surveys

Earth, air, and shores, and navigable seas,
At length on Libyan realms he fix’d his eyes:

Whom, pond’ring thus on human miseries,
When Venus saw, she with a lowly look,

Not free from tears, her heav’nly sire bespoke:

“O King of Gods and Men! whose awful hand
Disperses thunder on the seas and land,
Disposing all with absolute command;

How could my pious son thy pow’r incense?
Or what, alas! is vanish’d Troy’s offence?

Our hope of Italy not only lost,
On various seas by various tempests toss’d,
But shut from ev’ry shore, and barr’d from ev’ry coast.