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 XXII. THE DEATH OF HECTOR..

 

For Context: The Iliad - BOOK XXII. THE DEATH OF HECTOR.

Is not Troy fallen already? Haste, ye powers!

See, if already their deserted towers

Are left unmann’d; or if they yet retain

The souls of heroes, their great Hector slain.

But what is Troy, or glory what to me?

Or why reflects my mind on aught but thee,

Divine Patroclus! Death hath seal’d his eyes;

Unwept, unhonour’d, uninterr’d he lies!

Can his dear image from my soul depart,

Long as the vital spirit moves my heart?

If in the melancholy shades below,