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..

 

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.”