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..

 

For Context: The Iliad - BOOK XVIII. THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN.

An ever-dear, an ever-honour’d name!

When my proud mother hurl’d me from the sky,

(My awkward form, it seems, displeased her eye,)

She, and Eurynome, my griefs redress’d,

And soft received me on their silver breast.

Even then these arts employ’d my infant thought:

Chains, bracelets, pendants, all their toys, I wrought.

Nine years kept secret in the dark abode,

Secure I lay, conceal’d from man and god:

Deep in a cavern’d rock my days were led;

The rushing ocean murmur’d o’er my head.