“in the sense in which a poet is a philosopher... Virgil is the greatest philosopher of ancient Rome... among all authors of classical antiquity, one for whom the world made sense, for whom it had order and dignity, and for whom, as for no one before his time except the Hebrew prophets, history had meaning... he saw clearly both sides of every question—the case for the loser as well as the case for the winner.
T. S. Eliot, "”
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