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

And ancient Cybel, and Idaean Jove,
And last his sire below, and mother queen above.

Then heav’n’s high monarch thunder’d thrice aloud,
And thrice he shook aloft a golden cloud.

Soon thro’ the joyful camp a rumour flew,
The time was come their city to renew.

Then ev’ry brow with cheerful green is crown’d,
The feasts are doubled, and the bowls go round.

When next the rosy morn disclos’d the day,
The scouts to sev’ral parts divide their way,

To learn the natives’ names, their towns explore,
The coasts and trendings of the crooked shore:

Here Tiber flows, and here Numicus stands;
Here warlike Latins hold the happy lands.

The pious chief, who sought by peaceful ways
To found his empire, and his town to raise,

A hundred youths from all his train selects,
And to the Latian court their course directs,

(The spacious palace where their prince resides,)
And all their heads with wreaths of olive hides.

They go commission’d to require a peace,
And carry presents to procure access.