Virgilian
Americanadjective
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In Virgilian terms, Danny is Aeneas, a guy who’s a little too morally scrupulous for his own good.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
They read like Virgilian eclogues in the age of autocorrect.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
“While the loss of all human life by violence is lamentable, the parallel between the victims of 9/11 and the Virgilian heroes is a stretch.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2014
But she was also a very English painter, and Blake's Virgilian woodcuts, the intense landscapes of the Shoreham primitives and the naive popular art of chapbooks were among her influences.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2011
Thus the original motive of the Virgilian epic was essentially different from that of the Homeric poems.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
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