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 XV. THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX..
In youth’s first bloom reluctantly he dies.
For Context: The Iliad - BOOK XV. THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX.
Drove through the thickest of the embattled plains
The startling steeds, and shook his eager reins.
As all on glory ran his ardent mind,
The pointed death arrests him from behind:
Through his fair neck the thrilling arrow flies;
In youth’s first bloom reluctantly he dies.
Hurl’d from the lofty seat, at distance far,
The headlong coursers spurn his empty car;
Till sad Polydamas the steeds restrain’d,
And gave, Astynous, to thy careful hand;
Then, fired to vengeance, rush’d amidst the foe:
