Iliad and Odyssey Bibliomancy Reading
This oracle points to a randomly selected line from one of the epic poems of Homer: The Iliad and The Odyssey. The surrounding lines are provided for context.
Your line is from The Odyssey - BOOK XXIV. The Ithacans bury the wooers, and sitting in council resolve on revenge. And coming near the house of Laertes, are met by Odysseus, and Laertes with Telemachus and servants, the whole number twelve, and are overcome, and submit..
“So he spake, and the high-hearted Achaeans ceased from their flight.
For Context: The Odyssey - BOOK XXIV. The Ithacans bury the wooers, and sitting in council resolve on revenge. And coming near the house of Laertes, are met by Odysseus, and Laertes with Telemachus and servants, the whole number twelve, and are overcome, and submit.
heretofore the best. Out of his good will he made harangue, and spake
among them:
“‘Hold, ye Argives, flee not, young lords of the Achaeans. Lo, his
mother from the sea is she that comes, with the deathless maidens of
the waters, to behold the face of her dead son.’
“So he spake, and the high-hearted Achaeans ceased from their flight.
Then round thee stood the daughters of the ancient one of the sea,
holding a pitiful lament, and they clad thee about in raiment
incorruptible. And all the nine Muses one to the other replying with
sweet voices began the dirge; there thou wouldest not have seen an
Argive but wept, so mightily rose up the clear chant. Thus for
