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Eclogue 4, also known as the Fourth Eclogue, is a Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil. The poem is dated to 40 BC by its mention of the consulship of Virgil's patron Gaius Asinius Pollio . The work predicts the birth of a boy, a supposed savior, who—once he is of age—will become divine and eventually rule over the world.
The Roman emperor Constantine the Great was one of the first major figures to believe that Eclogue 4 was a pre-Christian augury concerning Jesus Christ. [9]According to Classicist Domenico Comparetti, in the early Christian era, "A certain theological doctrine, supported by various passages of [Judeo-Christian] scripture, induced men to look for prophets of Christ among the Gentiles". [10]
The opening lines of the Eclogues in the 5th-century Vergilius Romanus. The Eclogues (/ ˈ ɛ k l ɒ ɡ z /; Latin: Eclogae [ˈɛklɔɡae̯], lit. ' selections '), also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. [1]
[3] [4] Found there was a sophisticated mixture of pastoral dialogues, song contests and contemporary references. Virgil's term was used by later Latin poets to refer to their own pastoral poetry, often in imitation of Virgil, as in the cases of the Eclogae of Calpurnius Siculus and the Eclogae of Nemesianus. Calpurnius also employed rustic ...
The Latin expression paulo maiora canamus, translated literally, means let us sing of things a little more elevated (Virgil, Eclogues, IV, 1). The phrase is quoted to shift from frivolous arguments to more interesting topics, or from a painful topic to a more consoling one.
Messiah is a 'sacred eclogue' by Alexander Pope, composed in 1712. [1] It is based on the Fourth Eclogue of Virgil, and is an example of English Classicism's appropriation and reworking of the genres, subject matter and techniques of classical Latin literature.
Pages in category "Poetry by Virgil" ... Eclogue 1; Eclogue 2; Eclogue 3; Eclogue 4; Eclogue 5; ... Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...
if all (the words of poets) is fiction: Ovid, Metamorphoses, book XIII, lines 733–4: "si non omnia vates ficta" omnia vincit amor: love conquers all: Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC), Eclogue X, line 69: omnia munda mundis: everything [is] pure to the pure [men] from The New Testament: omnia praesumuntur legitime facta donec probetur in contrarium