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 VII. THE SINGLE COMBAT OF HECTOR AND AJAX..

 

For Context: The Iliad - BOOK VII. THE SINGLE COMBAT OF HECTOR AND AJAX.

Alive, unarm’d, and vigorous from his wound;

To Troy’s high gates the godlike man they bear

Their present triumph, as their late despair.

But Ajax, glorying in his hardy deed,

The well-arm’d Greeks to Agamemnon lead.

A steer for sacrifice the king design’d,

Of full five years, and of the nobler kind.

The victim falls; they strip the smoking hide,

The beast they quarter, and the joints divide;

Then spread the tables, the repast prepare,

Each takes his seat, and each receives his share.