Vergilian
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adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Vergilian
1505–15; < Latin Virgiliānus; see -an
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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
Was it an elaborate jest at the expense of Giovanni, the writer of Vergilian verse?
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
The Aetna is a Lucretian poem decked out in a Vergilian dress.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
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 Tenney Frank
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