Nos 3 and 4 Read by Stephen Murray. Ian Cross and Jonathan Newth
The third Eclogue is a singing match between two shepherd boys. The fourth is the famous Messianic Eclogue in which Virgil seems to be foretelling the coming of the Christian era, the Virgin Birth and the rise of the Church - an Eclogue which put Virgil in the highest esteem of the later Church Fathers and still later gave to Dante the inspiration to make Virgil the guide in his Divine Comedy.