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 XXI. Penelope bringeth forth her husband’s bow, which the suitors could not bend, but was bent by Odysseus..
hands. And he called forth the nurse Eurycleia from the chamber and
For Context: The Odyssey - BOOK XXI. Penelope bringeth forth her husband’s bow, which the suitors could not bend, but was bent by Odysseus.
that are in the halls, soon would I send many an one forth on a woeful
way from out our house, for they imagine mischief against us.”
So he spake, and all the wooers laughed sweetly at him, and ceased now
from their cruel anger toward Telemachus. Then the swineherd bare the
bow through the hall, and went up to wise Odysseus, and set it in his
hands. And he called forth the nurse Eurycleia from the chamber and
spake to her:
“Wise Eurycleia, Telemachus bids thee bar the well-fitting doors of thy
chamber, and if any of the women hear the sound of groaning or the din
of men within our walls, let them not go forth, but abide where they
are in silence at their work.”