Vergilian
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Vergilian
1505–15; < Latin Virgiliānus; see -an
Example Sentences
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Above its entrance was engraved a Vergilian tag, "Procul este, profani, "which freely translates as "Closed to non-experts."
From Time Magazine Archive
There are eleven Poussins in this show, and their cumulative effect has a Vergilian magnificence.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Ann�es de P�lerinage, redolent of Vergilian meadows, soft summer airs shimmering through every bar, what is more delicious except Au Bord d'une Source?
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James
And it suddenly impressed me as something poignant, as something with the Vergilian touch of tears in it.
From The Prairie Wife by Dunn, Harvey
There is a difference, it is true, in Arnold's expression of the mood: he is as little Sophoclean as he is Homeric, as little Lucretian as he is Vergilian.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
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