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
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
The Aetna is a Lucretian poem decked out in a Vergilian dress.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
"Vox et preterea nihil," to quote again that beloved Vergilian line.
From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel
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