John Milton’s “Lycidas” closely imitates a Latin poem by this writer, which includes the line “Love conquers all; let us then yield to love!” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Roman poet of the Eclogues and the Georgics. Another poem by this author begins “I sing of arms and the man.”
ANSWER: Virgil [or Publius Vergilius Maro] (The unnamed poem is the Aeneid [I guess])
[10h] This other poet is the primary speaker of the tenth Eclogue, in which he is given the line “Omnia vincit amor.” The Eclogue depicts him dying due to his unrequited love for Lycoris.
ANSWER: Gaius Cornelius Gallus
[10m] This author of the dialogue series Corydon drew character names from Virgil’s Eclogues for several of his novels. In one such novel, Menalque challenges his friend, a Protestant academic, to embrace homosexuality.
ANSWER: André Gide [or André Paul Guillaume Gide]
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