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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

301–400

The Fourth Century

1 work

c. 360–370

Latin

The Virgilian Cento on the Glory of Christ

Cento Vergilianus de Laudibus Christi

Faltonia Betitia Proba · c. 322 – c. 370

Creation, fall, and the life of Christ told in six hundred and ninety-four lines assembled entirely out of Virgil — every half-line lifted from the Aeneid, Georgics, or Eclogues and refitted, so that the poem says what Virgil never wrote using only words he did.

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