Virgil

Roman poet, author of the Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics. Jerome mentions the Virgiliocento and quotes from his Fourth Eclogue.

Works

II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Jerome mentions Virgiliocento and quoting Virgil's Fourth Eclogue as though making Virgil a Christian; quotes "Now the Virgin returns, the Saturnian kingdoms return" and "Now a new offspring is sent down from high heaven"
"as though we could not thus also call Virgil a Christian without Christ, because he wrote:"
II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Virgil's Fourth Eclogue quoted: "Now the Virgin returns"
"'Now the Virgin returns, the Saturnian kingdoms return;"
ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Reading Homer or Virgil produces passionate admiration but is surpassed by biblical poetry
"it surrenders to a passionate admiration that it has known only in reading Homer or Virgil"
ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Virgil's songs on the misfortunes of Aeneas are listed among great secular poetry, but set below the psalms and prophets
"those of Virgil on the misfortunes of Aeneas"

Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — Quoted from Georgics book 3: "Who does not know harsh Eurystheus, or the altars of unsung Busiris?"
"that of Virgil, Georgics book 3:"
Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — Quoted from Aeneid 1 for hendiadys: "He placed a mass and high mountains upon them"
"as in Virgil, Aeneid 1: 'He placed a mass and high mountains upon them'"

Verse 2: And the earth was without form and void — Quoted from Aeneid Book VI on the spirit nourishing the world
"Whence Virgil, in Aeneid Book VI:"
Verse 12: And the earth brought forth — Quoted from Book II of the Georgics on the world's creation in spring
"as Virgil in book II of the Georgics, speaking of the first origin of the nascent world"