Random Bibliomancy Reading with The Iliad & The Odyssey

This oracle points to a randomly selected passage from one of the books in our bibliomancy library. You have randomly pulled The Iliad off the shelf. The text near your passage is included below for context.

Your line is from BOOK XIII. THE FOURTH BATTLE CONTINUED, IN WHICH NEPTUNE ASSISTS THE GREEKS: THE ACTS OF IDOMENEUS..

For context:

The Iliad - BOOK XIII. THE FOURTH BATTLE CONTINUED, IN WHICH NEPTUNE ASSISTS THE GREEKS: THE ACTS OF IDOMENEUS.

At once the tent and ligature supplied.

Behold! Pisander, urged by fate’s decree,

Springs through the ranks to fall, and fall by thee,

Great Menelaus! to enchance thy fame:

High-towering in the front, the warrior came.

First the sharp lance was by Atrides thrown;

The lance far distant by the winds was blown.

Nor pierced Pisander through Atrides’ shield:

Pisander’s spear fell shiver’d on the field.

Not so discouraged, to the future blind,

Vain dreams of conquest swell his haughty mind;

Dauntless he rushes where the Spartan lord

Like lightning brandish’d his far beaming sword.

His left arm high opposed the shining shield:

His right beneath, the cover’d pole-axe held;