PROPHETIC POETRY AT ORATIO AD COETUM SANCTORUM
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https://doi.org/10.1344/AFAM202121136406Keywords:
Constantine the Great, speech, poetry, Virgil, SibyllaAbstract
In the Oratio ad coetum sanctorum, attributed to Constantine the Great, we can find two poetical pieces: the Oracula Sibyllina 8 (217-250) and many verses of the Virgil’s 8th Eclogues. At first glance, they seem unconnected with the rest of the speech and it looks like they serve as a rhetorical exercise. Nevertheless, the emperor used those texts to show that the coming of Christ had been foreseen before. He utilized them as example: the first one on the trot; the second one with an exegetical analysis alternated.
The aim of this article is to see how those are related with the rest of the speech. We want to show in which way Constantine linked the different ideas inside those both poetical texts to squeeze its use.
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