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 XV. THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX..

 

For Context: The Iliad - BOOK XV. THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX.

“Lo, Melanippus! lo, where Dolops lies;

And is it thus our royal kinsman dies?

O’ermatch’d he falls; to two at once a prey,

And lo! they bear the bloody arms away!

Come on—a distant war no longer wage,

But hand to hand thy country’s foes engage:

Till Greece at once, and all her glory end;

Or Ilion from her towery height descend,

Heaved from the lowest stone; and bury all

In one sad sepulchre, one common fall.”

Hector (this said) rush’d forward on the foes: