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 Iliad - BOOK XVIII. THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN..
Thus while he thinks, Antilochus appears,
For Context: The Iliad - BOOK XVIII. THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN.
The bravest of the Myrmidonian band
Should lose the light! Fulfilled is that decree;
Fallen is the warrior, and Patroclus he!
In vain I charged him soon to quit the plain,
And warn’d to shun Hectorean force in vain!”
Thus while he thinks, Antilochus appears,
And tells the melancholy tale with tears.
“Sad tidings, son of Peleus! thou must hear;
And wretched I, the unwilling messenger!
Dead is Patroclus! For his corse they fight;
His naked corse: his arms are Hector’s right.”
