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 XI. THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON..

 

For Context: The Iliad - BOOK XI. THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON.

Chief after chief the raging foe destroys;

Calm he looks on, and every death enjoys.

Now the slow course of all-impairing time

Unstrings my nerves, and ends my manly prime;

Oh! had I still that strength my youth possess’d,

When this bold arm the Epeian powers oppress’d,

The bulls of Elis in glad triumph led,

And stretch’d the great Itymonaeus dead!

Then from my fury fled the trembling swains,

And ours was all the plunder of the plains:

Fifty white flocks, full fifty herds of swine,