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The quoted scene says Statius was drawn toward Christianity because Christian preachers sounded like the truths latent in Virgil's words and because their saintly conduct won his loyalty during Domitian's persecution.
"And he to him, you were the first to send me to drink with him Parnassus' caves, and you, the first who, after God,..."
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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