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 XXIV. THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR..

 

For Context: The Iliad - BOOK XXIV. THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.

Have dogs dismember’d (on the naked plains),

Or yet unmangled rest, his cold remains?”

“O favour’d of the skies! (thus answered then

The power that mediates between god and men)

Nor dogs nor vultures have thy Hector rent,

But whole he lies, neglected in the tent:

This the twelfth evening since he rested there,

Untouch’d by worms, untainted by the air.

Still as Aurora’s ruddy beam is spread,

Round his friend’s tomb Achilles drags the dead:

Yet undisfigured, or in limb or face,