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 XII. THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL..

 

For Context: The Iliad - BOOK XII. THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL.

Close to the works their rigid siege they laid.

In vain the mounds and massy beams defend,

While these they undermine, and those they rend;

Upheaved the piles that prop the solid wall;

And heaps on heaps the smoky ruins fall.

Greece on her ramparts stands the fierce alarms;

The crowded bulwarks blaze with waving arms,

Shield touching shield, a long refulgent row;

Whence hissing darts, incessant, rain below.

The bold Ajaces fly from tower to tower,

And rouse, with flame divine, the Grecian power.