Vergilian
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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)
Internal evidence proves the poem to be a work of the period between 54 and 44, which admirably suits Vergilian claims.
From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney
The Aetna is a Lucretian poem decked out in a Vergilian dress.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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