“The great line of the centuries begins anew.”

—  Virgil , book Eclogues

Book IV, line 5 (tr. Fairclough)
Compare: Novus ordo seclorum ("New order of the ages"), motto on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States.
Eclogues (37 BC)

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Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.

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