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 VII. Odysseus being received at the house of the king Alcinous, the queen after supper, taking notice of his garments, gives him occasion to relate his passage thither on the raft. Alcinous promises him a convoy for the morrow..

 

For Context: The Odyssey - BOOK VII. Odysseus being received at the house of the king Alcinous, the queen after supper, taking notice of his garments, gives him occasion to relate his passage thither on the raft. Alcinous promises him a convoy for the morrow.

handmaids set out bedsteads beneath the gallery, and cast fair purple

blankets over them, and spread coverlets above, and thereon lay thick

mantles to be a clothing over all. So they went from the hall with

torch in hand. But when they had busied them and spread the good

bedstead, they stood by Odysseus and called unto him, saying:

“Up now, stranger, and get thee to sleep, thy bed is made.”

So spake they, and it seemed to him that rest was wondrous good. So he

slept there, the steadfast goodly Odysseus, on the jointed bedstead,

beneath the echoing gallery. But Alcinous laid him down in the

innermost chamber of the high house, and by him the lady his wife

arrayed bedstead and bedding.