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 XXIV. THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR..

 

For Context: The Iliad - BOOK XXIV. THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.

Born to his own, and to his parents’ woe!

Doom’d from the hour his luckless life begun,

To dogs, to vultures, and to Peleus’ son!

Oh! in his dearest blood might I allay

My rage, and these barbarities repay!

For ah! could Hector merit thus, whose breath

Expired not meanly, in unactive death?

He poured his latest blood in manly fight,

And fell a hero in his country’s right.”

“Seek not to stay me, nor my soul affright

With words of omen, like a bird of night,