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.

Of softest texture, and inwrought with gold.

Last o’er the urn the sacred earth they spread,

And raised the tomb, memorial of the dead.

(Strong guards and spies, till all the rites were done,

Watch’d from the rising to the setting sun.)

All Troy then moves to Priam’s court again,

A solemn, silent, melancholy train:

Assembled there, from pious toil they rest,

And sadly shared the last sepulchral feast.

Such honours Ilion to her hero paid,

And peaceful slept the mighty Hector’s shade.