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
Tennyson's own quality was more Vergilian than Homeric, but the models which he here remodels were the Homeric epics.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
"Vox et preterea nihil," to quote again that beloved Vergilian line.
From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel
Mr. Conington's translation hardly renders the fond little touch of the Vergilian phrase, a phrase only possible to a lover of children.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard
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