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 XIX. Telemachus removes the arms out of the hall. Odysseus disburseth with Penelope. And is known by his nurse, but concealed. And the hunting of the boar upon that occasion related..

 

For Context: The Odyssey - BOOK XIX. Telemachus removes the arms out of the hall. Odysseus disburseth with Penelope. And is known by his nurse, but concealed. And the hunting of the boar upon that occasion related.

strew a couch for him, bedding and mantles and shining blankets, that

well and warmly he may come to the time of golden-throned Dawn. And

very early in the morning bathe him and anoint him, that within the

house beside Telemachus he may eat meat, sitting quietly in the hall.

And it shall be the worse for any hurtful man of the wooers, that vexes

the stranger, yea he shall not henceforth profit himself here, for all

his sore anger. For how shalt thou learn concerning me, stranger,

whether indeed I excel all women in wit and thrifty device, if all

unkempt and evil clad thou sittest at supper in my halls? Man’s life is

brief enough! And if any be a hard man and hard at heart, all men cry

evil on him for the time to come, while yet he lives, and all men mock