Samuel Palmer's pencil black and white landscape study, Eclogue IV: Thy Very Cradle Quickens (1876)
Eclogue4, also known as the FourthEclogue, 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 exact meaning of the poem is still debated. Earlier interpretations argued that the child was the hoped-for offspring of Mark Antony and Octavia the Younger. Some commentators shy away from imagining the child as a specific person. Edwin Floyd, for example, argued that the child could be seen metaphorically as Virgil's poetry. Another possibility, argued by Francis Cairns, is that the child is the expected offspring of Virgil's patron Gaius Asinius Pollio, to whom the poem is dedicated.[1]
In late antiquity and the Middle Ages, the poem was reinterpreted by Christians to be about the birth of Jesus Christ. Medieval scholars thus claimed that Virgil had predicted Christ prior to his birth, and therefore must have been a pre-Christian prophet. Notable individuals such as Constantine the Great, St. Augustine, Dante Alighieri, and Alexander Pope believed in this interpretation of the eclogue. Modern scholars by and large shy away from this interpretation, although Floyd does note that the poem contains elements of religious and mythological themes, and R. G. M. Nisbet concluded that it is likely that Virgil was indirectly inspired by the Hebrew Scriptures via Eastern oracles.
Eclogue4, 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...
The Eclogues (/ˈɛklɒɡz/; Latin: Eclogae [ˈɛklɔɡae̯]), also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. Taking...
An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. The term is also used for a musical...
period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems...
been noticed in the syllables DE CA TE (i.e. Greek δεκάτη 'tenth') in Eclogue4, 9–11, with the same DEC A TE repeated cryptically both forwards and backwards...
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Eclogue 1 (Ecloga I) is a bucolic poem by the Latin poet Virgil from his Eclogues. In this poem, which is in the form of a dialogue, Virgil contrasts...
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Astraea's hoped-for return was referred to in a phrase from Virgil's Eclogue4: "Iam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia Regna" (Astraea returns, returns...
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12.28. Marko Marinčič, "Roman Archaeology in Vergil's Arcadia (Vergil Eclogue4; Aeneid 8; Livy 1.7), in Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions...
Eclogue 9 (Ecloga IX; Bucolica IX) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil, one of his series of ten poems known as the Eclogues. This eclogue describes...
works of Virgil. It contains the Aeneid, the Georgics, and some of the Eclogues. It is one of the oldest and most important Vergilian manuscripts. It is...
Eclogue 5 (Ecloga V; Bucolica V) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil, one of his book of ten poems known as the Eclogues. In form, this is an expansion...
Eclogue 6 (Ecloga VI; Bucolica VI) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil. In BC 40, a new distribution of lands took place in North Italy, and Alfenus...
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Rome, p. 19. Augustine, De Civitate Dei 6.9.2. Servius Danielis, note to Eclogue4.62 and Aeneid 10.76. Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.298–299; Corbeill, Nature Embodied...
versus: Mollia luteola pingens vaccinia calta (a mangled version of Virgil, Eclogue 2.50) Our manuscripts of Quintilian do not include this verse of Virgil...
the following year in Shelley's collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published...
of Celydrus", but mostly from the Bible. There are also allusions to Eclogue4 and possible borrowings from Aldhelm. The Carmen had little literary impact...
converting to Christianity while reading a passage from Virgil's Eclogues (Eclogue4.5–7). Statius recounts to Virgil that, "through you I was a poet...
material, or of still more valuable mosaics. Servius Danielis, note to Eclogue4.62 and Aeneid 10.76. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bed" . Encyclopædia...
derives from the fourth poem of the Eclogues by the Latin poet Virgil. The fourth eclogue contains the passage (lines 4–10): The motto is specifically a...
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