Vergilian
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Vergilian
1505–15; < Latin Virgiliānus; see -an
Example Sentences
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There are eleven Poussins in this show, and their cumulative effect has a Vergilian magnificence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above its entrance was engraved a Vergilian tag, "Procul este, profani, "which freely translates as "Closed to non-experts."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was therefore perfectly aware of the allegorical nature of the Vergilian eclogue, and adopted it for definite purposes of utility.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
It would appear that the two founders of the renaissance eclogue deliberately chose the Vergilian form as that best suited to their purpose.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
As far as his metre has any ancestry, it is descended from the Vergilian hexameter, though with the licence of satire it claims greater liberty in its treatment of pauses and of elision.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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