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 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.

O’er their huge limbs the foam descends in snow,

And streams of sweat down their sour foreheads flow.

A train of heroes followed through the field,

Who bore by turns great Ajax’ sevenfold shield;

Whene’er he breathed, remissive of his might,

Tired with the incessant slaughters of the fight.

No following troops his brave associate grace:

In close engagement an unpractised race,

The Locrian squadrons nor the javelin wield,

Nor bear the helm, nor lift the moony shield;

But skill’d from far the flying shaft to wing,