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 III. THE DUEL OF MENELAUS AND PARIS..

 

For Context: The Iliad - BOOK III. THE DUEL OF MENELAUS AND PARIS.

The lots of fight and shakes the brazen urn.

Then, Paris, thine leap’d forth; by fatal chance

Ordain’d the first to whirl the weighty lance.

Both armies sat the combat to survey.

Beside each chief his azure armour lay,

And round the lists the generous coursers neigh.

The beauteous warrior now arrays for fight,

In gilded arms magnificently bright:

The purple cuishes clasp his thighs around,

With flowers adorn’d, with silver buckles bound:

Lycaon’s corslet his fair body dress’d,