"Virgilian" is a word in ENGLISH
Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling
the style of Virgil.
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It was a particularly tough football game, and nerves were on edge. The home team had been the victim of three or four close calls, and they were now trailing the visitors by a touch-down and a field goal. When the official called yet another close one in the visitors' favor, the home quarterback blew his top.How many times can you do this to us in a single game?" he screamed. "You were wrong on the out-of-bounds, you were wrong on that last first down, and you missed an illegal tackle in the first quarter." The official just stared. The quarterback seethed, but he suppressed the language that might get him tossed from the game. "What it comes down to," he bellowed, "is that you STINK!" The official stared a few more seconds. Then he bent down, picked up the ball, paced off 15 yards, and put the ball down. He turned to face the steaming quarterback. The official finally replied, "And how do I smell from here?"
The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas.
Read the complete definitionA poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.
Read the complete definitionA pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and …
Read the complete definitionA pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of …
Read the complete definitionA rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.
Read the complete definitionA verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly …
Read the complete definitionA figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, \"dare classibus austros,\" …
Read the complete definitionA marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of …
Read the complete definitionA trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a …
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