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Bob Neveritt

Latin
Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis ætas;
Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo.
iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna,
iam nova progenies cælo demittitur alto.

English
Now comes the final era of the Sibyl's song;
The great order of the ages is born afresh.
And now justice returns, honored rules return;
now a new lineage is sent down from high heaven.

Medieval Christians read Virgil's poem as a prophecy of the coming of Christ.

The Augustan Age, although pre-Christian, was viewed as a golden age
preparing the world for the coming of Christ. The great poets of this age
were viewed as a source of revelation and light upon the Christian mysteries
to come. [2]

The word seclorum does not mean "secular", as one might assume, but is the
genitive (possessive) plural form of the word saeculum, meaning (in this context)
generation, century, or age. Saeculum did come to mean "age, world" in late,
Christian Latin, and "secular" is derived from it, through secularis. However, the
adjective "secularis," meaning "worldly," is not equivalent to the genitive plural
"seclorum," meaning "of the ages."[3]

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