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

The land lies open to the raging east,
Then, bending like a bow, with rocks compress’d,

Shuts out the storms; the winds and waves complain,
And vent their malice on the cliffs in vain.

The port lies hid within; on either side
Two tow’ring rocks the narrow mouth divide.

The temple, which aloft we view’d before,
To distance flies, and seems to shun the shore.

Scarce landed, the first omens I beheld
Were four white steeds that cropp’d the flow’ry field.

‘War, war is threaten’d from this foreign ground,’
My father cried, ‘where warlike steeds are found.

Yet, since reclaim’d to chariots they submit,
And bend to stubborn yokes, and champ the bit,

Peace may succeed to war.’ Our way we bend
To Pallas, and the sacred hill ascend;

There prostrate to the fierce Virago pray,
Whose temple was the landmark of our way.

Each with a Phrygian mantle veil’d his head,

And all commands of Helenus obey’d,
And pious rites to Grecian Juno paid.