An Omen (Yikes!)

In anticipation of my civil procedure final, which begins in slightly less than twelve hours now (eek!), I decided to consult the Sortes Vergilianae. For the unfamiliar, the Sortes Vergilianae (English: Virgilian lots) is a form of divination practiced by taking a copy of the Aeneid, opening it to a random page, closing your eyes, and pointing at random; you then interpret the line you pointed to in reference to your particular situation. (My friends and I used to do this before Latin tests in high school.) Not having a physical copy of the Aeneid, I approximated the procedure by using a random number generator to pick first a book (1-12) and then a line within that book.

I did this mostly just for fun, but the result was uncomfortably apt. I got Book III, line 338, which reads:

Aut quisnam ignarum deus appulit oris?

In English, that's "What god has driven you, ignorant, to our shores?", which doesn't seem to bode well for an exam. But then again, oracles are famously obscure, so I suppose I'll just have to do what I can and see how it plays out. Keeping my fingers crossed!