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Eclogue 4
''Eclogue'' 4, also known as the Fourth ''Eclogue'' is the name of a Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil.
Part of his first major work, the ''Eclogues'', the piece was written around 42 BC, during a time of temporary stability following the Treaty of Brundisium; it was later published in and around the years 39–38 BC. The work describes 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 up for debate. Earlier interpretations argued that the child was the hoped-for offspring of Marc Antony and Octavia the Younger. Modern interpretations tend to 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.
In late antiquity and the Middle Ages, the poem was radically reinterpreted by Christians to be about the birth of Jesus Christ. Medieval scholars thus claimed that Virgil had somehow predicted Christ prior to his birth, and that Virgil 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 many disparate religious and mythological themes, and R. G. M. Nisbet concluded that it is was likely that Virgil was indirectly inspired by the Hebrew Scriptures via Eastern oracles.
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