Virgil

[ vur-juhl ]

noun

1. Vergil.
2. a male given name.

Virgil

/ ˈvɜːdʒɪl /

noun

1. Virgil70 bc19 bcMRomanWRITING: poet Latin name Publius Vergilius Maro. 70–19 bc , Roman poet, patronized by Maecenas. The Eclogues (42–37), ten pastoral poems, and the Georgics (37–30), four books on the art of farming, established Virgil as the foremost poet of his age. His masterpiece is the Aeneid (30–19)

Virgil

1. An ancient Roman poet; the author of the Aeneid, one of the great epics of Western literature.

Derived Forms

• Virˈgilian, adjective

Example Sentences

The Roman poet Virgil was said to have designed a series of animated wooden statues, each representing a province of the Roman Empire, and holding a bell that would ring if the province threatened revolt.

From Popular-Science

Virgil made fashion accessible to regular people and made sure to include those who came up with him along the way.

From The Daily Beast

When I happened to mention this to Virgil, he immediately offered to help, calling up Nike, and after what seemed like about a minute later, thirty jerseys were on their way to those young players.

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The thing about Virgil wasn’t just his remarkable ability to speak to the moment, or his relentless drive to create, create, create.

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Solzhenitsyn was my Virgil many a time as I passed through the circles of incarceration.

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What Virgil meant by that,” Thomas explains, “is that to steal means to improve upon, which is basically what Dylan is doing.

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“Virgil himself was accused of stealing from Homer, and the voice of Bob Dylan is like that,” Thomas said.

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Each of his 40 chapters, which range from Homer and Virgil to e-books and the future of literature, averages only six pages.

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The result is gore, as in when Virgil is slashed and ripped to pieces.

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So Virgil, "Solemnes tum forte dapes et tristia dona ante urbem in luco," &c.

From Project Gutenberg

Later he studied well, however, and became filled with a love of Virgil and Homer.

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You have intelligence and powers of invention, as Virgil and Horace had; but perhaps it is not absolutely the same intelligence.

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Who has not devoured the classical dictionary before he has learned to scan the lines of Homer or of Virgil?

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Virgil borrowed many of his thoughts, and was regarded as the prince of Roman song in the time of Cicero.

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