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
The Aetna is a Lucretian poem decked out in a Vergilian dress.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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
He illustrated his views by an amusing "hexametrical dialogue," conducted alternately in Vergilian measure and "in that of Longfellow."
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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