- a variation of Vergilian.
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
The poet drew many of his figures, too, from animal life, as the beasts and the birds in the sustained Virgilian similes in the "Lucifer."
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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