I was thinking of the famous 4th Pastoral or Eclogue, called 'The Golden Age Returns'. This is very apposite to our discussion as Virgil [died 19 B.C.] was evoking the birth of a miraculous child. The child was probably that of Octavian [Augustus Caesar], but the Church [e.g., St. Augustine] later suggested that Virgil was having a premonition of the Christ child.

To quote from Virgil's fourth Pastoral;
"Later, when you have learnt to read the praises of the great and what your father achieved, and come to understand what manhood is, the waving corn will slowly flood the plains with gold, gs hang in ruby clusters on the neglected thorn, and honeydew exude from the hard trunk of oak...
"Even so, faint traces of our former wickedness will linger on, to make us venture on the sea in ships, build walls around our cities, and plough the soil...
"Wars even will repeat themselves, and the great Achilles be despatched to Troy once more". [Vergil, IV Eclogue]

Here is a blatant espousal of the doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same, as well as an openly amoral stance. It is all very Nietzschean;
"The Fates have spoken, in concord with the unalterable decree of destiny". [ib.]

The piece finishes with this;
"Begin then, little boy, to greet your mother with a smile: the ten long months have left her sick at heart. Begin, little boy: no one who has not given his mother a smile has ever been thought worthy of his table by a god, or by a goddess of her bed". [ib.]

Is this the Christ child, or the Christ-Souled Roman Caesar!