Virgilian
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- pre-Virgilian adjective
- pseudo-Virgilian adjective
Example Sentences
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In Virgilian terms, Danny is Aeneas, a guy who’s a little too morally scrupulous for his own good.
From Washington Post
Reading parts of “Moby-Dick” is like watching a fireworks in which Virgilian Roman candles, Old Testament sparklers, and Shakespearean bottle rockets pop off all at once, hissing and whistling; you get the feeling the stage manager is about to blow a finger off.
From The New Yorker
In “How the Classics Made Shakespeare,” Jonathan Bate — provost of Worcester College, Oxford, as well as a scholar of remarkable industry — probes what one might call the Ovidian, Virgilian, Horatian, Ciceronian, Plutarchan and Senecan undergirdings to the many Shakespearean works with strong classical associations.
From Washington Post
Constable was a realist: English artists before him could not paint a landscape without making it look like Italy, littering it with Virgilian shepherds, cavorting satyrs and comely river gods.
From Washington Post
They read like Virgilian eclogues in the age of autocorrect.
From The New Yorker
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