the romans were aware of the conspiracy. the conspiracy involves tearing down the old order in a great conflagration, with a new order of the ages or a new golden age rising phoenix like out the ashes of the old world. virgil wrote affectionately of the conspiracy: now the last age by cumae's sibyl sung has come and gone, and the majestic roll of circling centuries begins anew: justice returns, returns old saturn's reign, with a new breed of men sent down from heaven. only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom the iron shall cease, the golden race arise, befriend him, chaste lucina; 'tis thine own apollo reigns. and in thy consulate, this glorious age, o pollio, shall begin, the conspiracy, fated to triumph for a short time, before its final annihilation, is prophesied in both the old and new testament.
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