HOMERIC ORACLE
based on the work of Hans Dieter Betz in The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation
employing the A. T. Murray Odyssey 1919 and the A. T. Murray Iliad 1924
(except line 1-1-3, tr. Samuel Butler, 1898)
# | # | # | Oracle | Source | Book | Line |
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1 | 1 | 1 | yet for their cursed belly’s sake men endure evil woes | Odyssey | 15 | 344 |
1 | 1 | 2 | either to throw out anchor-stones or to make fast stern cables | Odyssey | 9 | 137 |
1 | 1 | 3 | rose hideous as the sword smote them, and the river ran red with blood | Iliad | 21 | 21 |
1 | 1 | 4 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 1 | 5 | uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil | Iliad | 2 | 101 |
1 | 1 | 6 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 2 | 1 | I am minded to make amends and to give requital past counting. | Iliad | 9 | 120 |
1 | 2 | 2 | then of a surety have the gods themselves destroyed thy wits. | Iliad | 7 | 360 |
1 | 2 | 3 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 2 | 4 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 2 | 5 | And for thyself I wish that with joy thou mayest reach thy well-built house | Odyssey | 15 | 128 |
1 | 2 | 6 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 3 | 1 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 3 | 2 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 3 | 3 | But lo, Zeus fulfilleth not for men all their purposes | Iliad | 18 | 328 |
1 | 3 | 4 | even that would I choose; and it would be better far | Odyssey | 11 | 358 |
1 | 3 | 5 | Then would he scatter all the proud airs | Odyssey | 17 | 244 |
1 | 3 | 6 | Woman, I too take thought of all this, but wondrously have I shame | Iliad | 6 | 441 |
1 | 4 | 1 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 4 | 2 | speaking him fair, but pondering evil in the deep of their hearts | Odyssey | 17 | 66 |
1 | 4 | 3 | Not to be flung aside, look you, are the glorious gifts of the gods | Iliad | 3 | 65 |
1 | 4 | 4 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 4 | 5 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 4 | 6 | Thus shall it be, Scamander, nurtured of Zeus, even as thou biddest. | Iliad | 21 | 223 |
1 | 5 | 1 | to thy foes a joy, but to thine own self a hanging down of the head | Iliad | 3 | 51 |
1 | 5 | 2 | In the course of this self-same day [year?] Odysseus shall come hither | Odyssey | 14 | 161 |
1 | 5 | 3 | in no wise a profit unto thee, seeing thou shalt not lie therein | Iliad | 22 | 513 |
1 | 5 | 4 | and whichsoever of the twain shall conquer, him let woman and treasure follow | Iliad | 3 | 255 |
1 | 5 | 5 | No good thing is a multitude of lords; let there be one lord | Iliad | 2 | 204 |
1 | 5 | 6 | And full of ghosts is the porch and full the court, of ghosts | Odyssey | 20 | 355 |
1 | 6 | 1 | We have won us great glory; we have slain goodly Hector | Iliad | 22 | 393 |
1 | 6 | 2 | Who is there now that would promise me this deed and bring it to pass? | Iliad | 10 | 303 |
1 | 6 | 3 | nay, not though he gave gifts in number as sand and dust | Iliad | 9 | 385 |
1 | 6 | 4 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 6 | 5 | ——— | — | — | — |
1 | 6 | 6 | ——— | — | — | — |
2 | 1 | 1 | For not one of the islands that lean upon the sea is fit for driving horses, or rich in meadows | Odyssey | 4 | 607 |
2 | 1 | 2 | Surely ye hearkened not at all in olden days, when ye were children, when your fathers told | Odyssey | 4 | 688 |
2 | 1 | 3 | ——— | — | — | — |
2 | 1 | 4 | ——— | — | — | — |
2 | 1 | 5 | ——— | — | — | — |
2 | 1 | 6 | Hateful in my eyes are his gifts, I count them at a hair’s worth. | Iliad | 9 | 378 |
2 | 2 | 1 | his only son and well-beloved, that is heir to great possessions | |||
2 | 2 | 2 | ——— | — | — | — |
2 | 2 | 3 | ——— | — | — | — |
2 | 2 | 4 | ——— | — | — | — |
2 | 2 | 5 | So these were thronging about Achilles, and near | Odyssey | 24 | 19 |
2 | 2 | 6 | men that fashion lies out of what no man can even see | Odyssey | 11 | 366 |
2 | 3 | 1 | be thou valiant, that many an one of men yet to be born may praise thee | Odyssey | 1 | 302 |
2 | 3 | 2 | leaning the while against a pillar on the barrow that men’s hands reared | Iliad | 11 | 371 |
2 | 3 | 3 | get thee gone; before thee lies the way, and thy ships stand beside the sea | Iliad | 9 | 43 |
2 | 3 | 4 | Thou wilt play the cheat, and not bring thy word to fulfillment. | Iliad | 19 | 107 |
2 | 3 | 5 | And over against him the mother in her turn wailed and shed tears | Iliad | 22 | 79 |
2 | 3 | 6 | Nay, if for five years’ space or six years’ space thou wert to abide here | Odyssey | 3 | 115 |
2 | 4 | 1 | He spake, and bade Paeëon heal his hurt | Iliad | 5 | 899 |
2 | 4 | 2 | All this, unhappy man, will I perform and do. | Odyssey | 11 | 80 |
2 | 4 | 3 | How art thou minded to render my labour vain and of none effect, and the sweat that I sweated in my toil | Iliad | 4 | 26 |
2 | 4 | 4 | late in coming, late in fulfillment, the fame whereof shall never perish | Iliad | 2 | 325 |
2 | 4 | 5 | thou wouldest grow weary ere the end and get thee back to thy native land | Odyssey | 3 | 117 |
2 | 4 | 6 | to bring from thence deadly drugs | Odyssey | 2 | 329 |
2 | 5 | 1 | Husband, perished from out of life art thou, yet in thy youth, and leavest me a widow | Iliad | 24 | 725 |
2 | 5 | 2 | even as I am minded, and as it shall be brought to pass, that ye sit not | Iliad | 9 | 310 |
2 | 5 | 3 | Bring me no honey-hearted wine, honoured mother | Iliad | 6 | 264 |
2 | 5 | 4 | ——— | — | — | — |
2 | 5 | 5 | ——— | — | — | — |
2 | 5 | 6 | lest thou make thy child an orphan and thy wife a widow | Iliad | 6 | 432 |
2 | 6 | 1 | may they now feast here their latest and their last | Odyssey | 4 | 685 |
2 | 6 | 2 | To sleep the whole night through beseemeth not a man that is a counsellor | Iliad | 2 | 24 |
2 | 6 | 3 | Strange man, thou dost not well to nurse this anger in thy heart. | Iliad | 6 | 326 |
2 | 6 | 4 | Who knows but Odysseus may some day come and take vengeance on them | Odyssey | 3 | 216 |
2 | 6 | 5 | I will bring you each a wife, and will give you possessions | Odyssey | 21 | 214 |
2 | 6 | 6 | and so make trial of [the bow], and end the contest | Odyssey | 21 | 180 |
3 | 1 | 1 | For in sooth I count it not shame to flee from ruin, nay, not though it be by night. | Iliad | 14 | 80 |
3 | 1 | 2 | Bethink thee of all manner of valour: now in good sooth it behoveth thee | Iliad | 22 | 268 |
3 | 1 | 3 | a widow in thy halls, and thy son is still a mere babe | Iliad | 22 | 484 |
3 | 1 | 4 | But do thou not enter into the turmoil of Ares | Iliad | 18 | 134 |
3 | 1 | 5 | for quickly do men grow old in evil fortune. | Odyssey | 19 | 360 |
3 | 1 | 6 | ——— | — | — | — |
3 | 2 | 1 | ——— | — | — | — |
3 | 2 | 2 | That mortal man lives not, or exists nor shall ever be born | Odyssey | 6 | 201 |
3 | 2 | 3 | Aye, verily, as thou sayest, my child, it is in truth no ill thing | Iliad | 18 | 128 |
3 | 2 | 4 | for now is it no more possible for him to escape us | Iliad | 22 | 219 |
3 | 2 | 5 | will we ransom them with bronze and gold, seeing there is store thereof | Iliad | 22 | 50 |
3 | 2 | 6 | be still, and drink thy wine, and do not strive with men younger than thou | Odyssey | 21 | 310 |
3 | 3 | 1 | whither fleest thou with thy back turned, like a coward in the throng? | Iliad | 8 | 94 |
3 | 3 | 2 | Would that a man such as he might be called my husband | Odyssey | 6 | 244 |
3 | 3 | 3 | yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. | Iliad | 4 | 443 |
3 | 3 | 4 | But lo, Zeus fulfilleth not for men all their purposes | Iliad | 18 | 328 |
3 | 3 | 5 | as he wept, and vouchsafed him that his folk should be saved and not perish | Iliad | 8 | 246 |
3 | 3 | 6 | would thou hadst never besought the peerless son of Peleus | Iliad | 9 | 698 |
3 | 4 | 1 | It is wine that wounds thee, honey-sweet wine, which works harm to others too | Odyssey | 21 | 293 |
3 | 4 | 2 | Do as thy pleasure is and hold thee back no more. | Iliad | 22 | 185 |
3 | 4 | 3 | for both of us twain are fated to redden the selfsame earth with our blood | Iliad | 18 | 329 |
3 | 4 | 4 | hoot on in this wise, if so be thou mayest prove a light of deliverance to the Danaans | Iliad | 8 | 282 |
3 | 4 | 5 | because of what thou hast wrought, as surely as there lives no man that shall ward off the dogs | Iliad | 22 | 348 |
3 | 4 | 6 | Thou shalt never slay me, for lo, I am not one that is appointed to die. | Iliad | 22 | 13 |
3 | 5 | 1 | thou wouldest abide here and keep this house with me | Odyssey | 5 | 208 |
3 | 5 | 2 | Give way, old man, from the doorway, lest soon thou be even dragged out by the foot. | Odyssey | 18 | 10 |
3 | 5 | 3 | Better it is if one fleeth from ruin and escapeth, than if he be taken. | Iliad | 14 | 81 |
3 | 5 | 4 | and tell no man of them all nor any woman | Odyssey | 13 | 308 |
3 | 5 | 5 | of wheat or barley, and the handfuls fall thick and fast | Iliad | 11 | 69 |
3 | 5 | 6 | Whatsoever word thou speakest, such shalt thou also hear. | Iliad | 20 | 250 |
3 | 6 | 1 | would not suffer that Helen be given back to fair-haired Menelaus | Iliad | 11 | 125 |
3 | 6 | 2 | or wilt thou anywise turn thee; for the hearts of the good may be turned? | Iliad | 15 | 203 |
3 | 6 | 3 | But as for me, I never doubted of this, but in my heart | Odyssey | 13 | 339 |
3 | 6 | 4 | Eurymachus, this shall not be so, and thou of thyself too knowest it. | Odyssey | 21 | 257 |
3 | 6 | 5 | Ah, wretched stranger, thou hast no wit, no, not a trace. | Odyssey | 21 | 288 |
3 | 6 | 6 | and a part [of the prayer] the Father granted him, and a part denied. | Iliad | 16 | 250 |
4 | 1 | 1 | Nay, go to thy chamber, and busy thyself with thine own tasks | Odyssey | 1 | 356 |
4 | 1 | 2 | bear all these things in mind, that thou mayest hereafter tell them to thy wife | Odyssey | 11 | 224 |
4 | 1 | 3 | else wouldest thou ere this have donned a coat of stone by reason of all the evil thou hast wrought | Iliad | 3 | 57 |
4 | 1 | 4 | it has been thy dearest prayer to the immortals to see him a bearded man | Odyssey | 18 | 176 |
4 | 1 | 5 | vow to Apollo, the wolf-born god, famed for his bow | Iliad | 4 | 101 |
4 | 1 | 6 | nor do wolves and lambs have hearts of concord | Iliad | 22 | 263 |
4 | 2 | 1 | Nay then, let us yield one to the other herein | Iliad | 4 | 62 |
4 | 2 | 2 | And amid them Strife and Tumult joined in the fray, and deadly Fate | Iliad | 18 | 535 |
4 | 2 | 3 | ——— | — | — | — |
4 | 2 | 4 | Come, rouse thee for battle, such a one as of old thou declaredst thyself to be. | Iliad | 4 | 264 |
4 | 2 | 5 | ——— | — | — | — |
4 | 2 | 6 | Fool, why bearest thou a bow thus worthless as wind? | Iliad | 21 | 474 |
4 | 3 | 1 | For even the fair-haired Niobe bethought her of meat | Iliad | 24 | 602 |
4 | 3 | 2 | after giving him stores of bronze and gold and raiment | Odyssey | 5 | 38 |
4 | 3 | 3 | So then shall this journey of thine be neither vain nor unfulfilled. | Odyssey | 2 | 273 |
4 | 3 | 4 | One omen is best, to fight for one’s country. | Iliad | 12 | 243 |
4 | 3 | 5 | Her will I sacrifice to thee and will overlay her horns with gold. | Iliad | 10 | 294 |
4 | 3 | 6 | and wouldst win favour and renown in the eyes of all the Trojans | Iliad | 4 | 95 |
4 | 4 | 1 | in secret and not openly […]; for no longer is there faith in women | Odyssey | 11 | 456 |
4 | 4 | 2 | It may not be that I should say thee nay, nor were it seemly | Iliad | 14 | 212 |
4 | 4 | 3 | forthwith bend his mind to follow thy heart and mine | Iliad | 15 | 52 |
4 | 4 | 4 | and give him counsel, and direct him; and he will obey thee to his profit | Iliad | 11 | 789 |
4 | 4 | 5 | thou shalt yield glory to me, and thy soul to Hades of the goodly steeds | Iliad | 5 | 654 |
4 | 4 | 6 | let him then enter in […] and heap up his ship with store of gold and bronze | Iliad | 9 | 137 |
4 | 5 | 1 | but tell her somewhat, and let somewhat also be hidden | Odyssey | 11 | 443 |
4 | 5 | 2 | even thus I ween hath Zeus laid upon us even at our birth the heaviness of woe. | Iliad | 10 | 71 |
4 | 5 | 3 | that he alone should have understanding; but the others flit about as shadows | Odyssey | 10 | 495 |
4 | 5 | 4 | yielding to his own spirit; and to him thereafter they paid not the gifts | Iliad | 9 | 598 |
4 | 5 | 5 | Glad am I, son of Laertes, to hear thy words | Iliad | 19 | 185 |
4 | 5 | 6 | But as for valour, it is Zeus that increaseth it for men or [di]minisheth it | Iliad | 20 | 242 |
4 | 6 | 1 | dread man; lightly would he blame even one in whom was no blame. | Iliad | 11 | 654 |
4 | 6 | 2 | with all speed, since now thou mayest take the broad-wayed city | Iliad | 2 | 66 |
4 | 6 | 3 | Endure, my heart; a worse thing even than this didst thou once endure | Odyssey | 20 | 18 |
4 | 6 | 4 | Fellow, sit thou still, and hearken to the words of others | Iliad | 2 | 200 |
4 | 6 | 5 | had cast aside his wrath and had chosen friendliness | Iliad | 16 | 282 |
4 | 6 | 6 | so good a thing is it that a son be left behind a man at his death | Odyssey | 3 | 196 |
5 | 1 | 1 | Come, take this veil, and stretch it beneath thy breast. | Odyssey | 5 | 346 |
5 | 1 | 2 | an unholy thing is it to boast over slain men. | Odyssey | 22 | 412 |
5 | 1 | 3 | through the immortal night when other mortals are sleeping | Iliad | 24 | 363 |
5 | 1 | 4 | How should I, then, forget godlike Odysseus | Odyssey | 1 | 65 |
5 | 1 | 5 | and down over his eyes came dark death and mighty fate | Iliad | 5 | 83 |
5 | 1 | 6 | So true is it that there is nothing more dread or more shameless than a woman | Odyssey | 11 | 427 |
5 | 2 | 1 | Let us not go forward to fight with the Danaans for the ships. | Iliad | 12 | 216 |
5 | 2 | 2 | ye should defend you against a man, when one waxes wroth without a cause | Iliad | 24 | 369 |
5 | 2 | 3 | nor do his children prattle about his knees | Iliad | 5 | 408 |
5 | 2 | 4 | At home now in truth am I here before you, my very self. After many grievous toils | Odyssey | 21 | 207 |
5 | 2 | 5 | Nay, speak not thus; things shall in no wise be any better before | Iliad | 5 | 218 |
5 | 2 | 6 | abide here the while, eager though he be for war | Iliad | 19 | 189 |
5 | 3 | 1 | Nor yet do thou, as thou exultest in war and conflict […], lead on | Iliad | 16 | 91 |
5 | 3 | 2 | never went I up into her bed neither had dalliance with her | Iliad | 9 | 133 |
5 | 3 | 3 | his [l]ips he wetteth, but his palate he wetteth not | Iliad | 22 | 495 |
5 | 3 | 4 | Be of good cheer, neither let these things distress thy heart. | Iliad | 18 | 463 |
5 | 3 | 5 | only this mad dog can I not smite | Iliad | 8 | 299 |
5 | 3 | 6 | Good friend, abide in silence, and hearken to my word. | Iliad | 4 | 412 |
5 | 4 | 1 | Ill deeds thrive not. The slow catches the swift | Odyssey | 8 | 329 |
5 | 4 | 2 | bar the close-fitting doors of their hall | Odyssey | 21 | 236 |
5 | 4 | 3 | Ah, poor wretch, death verily is not in thy thoughts | Iliad | 17 | 201 |
5 | 4 | 4 | Odysseus is here, and has come home, late though his coming has been | Odyssey | 23 | 7 |
5 | 4 | 5 | yet late and at length doth he fulfill them, and with a heavy price | Iliad | 4 | 161 |
5 | 4 | 6 | and therein is Strife, therein Valour, and therein Onset, that maketh the blood run cold | Iliad | 5 | 740 |
5 | 5 | 1 | to die of hunger, and so meet one’s doom, is the most pitiful | Odyssey | 12 | 342 |
5 | 5 | 2 | lie low when I am dead. But now let me win glorious renown | Iliad | 18 | 121 |
5 | 5 | 3 | Come, rouse thee for battle, such a one as of old thou declaredst thyself to be. | Iliad | 4 | 264 |
5 | 5 | 4 | I mock thee not, dear child, but in very truth | Odyssey | 23 | 26 |
5 | 5 | 5 | but stayed Alcmene’s bearing, and held back the Eileithyiae | Iliad | 19 | 119 |
5 | 5 | 6 | Nay, come, these things will we make good hereafter, if any harsh word hath been spoken now | Iliad | 4 | 362 |
5 | 6 | 1 | Whither are ye twain hastening? Why is it that the hearts are mad within your breasts? | Iliad | 8 | 413 |
5 | 6 | 2 | Nay verily, not for him be thy heart overmuch troubled. | Odyssey | 13 | 421 |
5 | 6 | 3 | But in no wise do the gods grant to men all things at one time. | Iliad | 4 | 320 |
5 | 6 | 4 | Nay, speak not thus; things shall in no wise be any better before | Iliad | 5 | 218 |
5 | 6 | 5 | So spake he, but with these words he moved not the mind of Zeus | Iliad | 12 | 173 |
5 | 6 | 6 | but Odysseus nodded in dissent, and checked him in his eagerness | Odyssey | 21 | 129 |
6 | 1 | 1 | How art thou fain to go alone to the ships of the Achaeans | Iliad | 24 | 203 |
6 | 1 | 2 | a bridegroom though he was, and he left only one daughter | Odyssey | 7 | 65 |
6 | 1 | 3 | And the mist moreover have I taken from thine eyes that afore was upon them | Iliad | 5 | 127 |
6 | 1 | 4 | and so make trial of [the bow], and end the contest | Odyssey | 21 | 180 |
6 | 1 | 5 | And I know that by you two alone of all my thralls is my coming desired | Odyssey | 21 | 209 |
6 | 1 | 6 | I will clothe him in a cloak and tunic, fair raiment | Odyssey | 16 | 79 |
6 | 2 | 1 | She made fast a noose on high from a lofty beam | Odyssey | 11 | 278 |
6 | 2 | 2 | rememberest our skill, what feats | Odyssey | 8 | 244 |
6 | 2 | 3 | cross over the great gulf of the sea, for this the Earth-shaker has granted them | Odyssey | 7 | 35 |
6 | 2 | 4 | Father, bear the bow onward—soon shalt thou rue giving heed to all— | Odyssey | 21 | 369 |
6 | 2 | 5 | Nay, rouse thee for battle, and rouse withal the rest of thy people. | Iliad | 19 | 139 |
6 | 2 | 6 | For not even the mighty Heracles escaped death | Iliad | 18 | 117 |
6 | 3 | 1 | I am minded to make amends and to give requital past counting. | Iliad | 9 | 120 |
6 | 3 | 2 | And let him rise up in the midst of the Argives and swear to thee an oath | Iliad | 19 | 175 |
6 | 3 | 3 | Near by is that man; not long shall we seek him, if so be ye are minded | Iliad | 14 | 110 |
6 | 3 | 4 | from somewhere thus suddenly, and some god should bring him | Odyssey | 21 | 196 |
6 | 3 | 5 | Yea, verily, these things have now been brought to pass and are here at hand | Iliad | 14 | 53 |
6 | 3 | 6 | Nay, have at them with me; the more men the better work. | Iliad | 12 | 412 |
6 | 4 | 1 | then of a surety have the gods themselves destroyed thy wits. | Iliad | 7 | 360 |
6 | 4 | 2 | Be of good cheer, and let not death be in thy thoughts. | Iliad | 10 | 383 |
6 | 4 | 3 | wake from sleep with her long lamentings all her household | Iliad | 5 | 413 |
6 | 4 | 4 | Only go thou quietly, and I will lead the way. | Odyssey | 7 | 30 |
6 | 4 | 5 | Verily it is for naught that thou hast ears for hearing, and thine understanding and sense of right are gone from thee. | Iliad | 15 | 129 |
6 | 4 | 6 | when he himself waxed old; howbeit in the armour of the father the son came not to old age | Iliad | 17 | 197 |
6 | 5 | 1 | to reach my home, and to see the day of my return | Odyssey | 5 | 220 |
6 | 5 | 2 | when as yet he had no son, Apollo of the silver bow smote in his hall | Odyssey | 7 | 64 |
6 | 5 | 3 | then there is hope that thou wilt see thy friends | Odyssey | 7 | 76 |
6 | 5 | 4 | But to you two will I tell the truth, even as it shall be. | Odyssey | 21 | 212 |
6 | 5 | 5 | For thus will I speak, and this thing shall truly be brought to pass. | Iliad | 1 | 212 |
6 | 5 | 6 | and send him whithersoever his heart and spirit bid him go | Odyssey | 16 | 81 |
6 | 6 | 1 | thou man distraught? Soon by thy swine, alone and apart from men, shall the swift hounds devour thee | Odyssey | 21 | 363 |
6 | 6 | 2 | Then shouldest thou know what manner of might is mine, and how my hands obey. | Odyssey | 20 | 237 |
6 | 6 | 3 | it is not that we think the man will lead thee to his home—that were indeed unseemly— | Odyssey | 21 | 322 |
6 | 6 | 4 | ever gather here, waiting expectantly day after day | Odyssey | 21 | 156 |
6 | 6 | 5 | give judgments which you have pondered in secret, nor have you ever brought yourself with a ready heart | Iliad | 1 | 542 |
6 | 6 | 6 | Nay, I bid thee, Dolon, put no thought of escape in thy heart | Iliad | 10 | 447 |