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 Odyssey - BOOK XX. Pallas and Odysseus consult of the killing of the wooers..

 

For Context: The Odyssey - BOOK XX. Pallas and Odysseus consult of the killing of the wooers.

bronze, and went and stood by the threshold, and spake to Eurycleia:

“Dear nurse, have ye honoured our guest in the house with food and

couch, or does he lie uncared for, as he may? For this is my mother’s

way, wise as she is: blindly she honours one of mortal men, even the

worse, but the better she sends without honour away.”

Then the prudent Eurycleia answered: “Nay, my child, thou shouldst not

now blame her where no blame is. For the stranger sat and drank wine,

so long as he would, and of food he said he was no longer fain, for thy

mother asked him. Moreover, against the hour when he should bethink him

of rest and sleep, she bade the maidens strew for him a bed. But he, as

one utterly wretched and ill-fated, refused to lie on a couch and under