"Virgilian" is a word in ENGLISH
Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling
the style of Virgil.
A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.
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Did you hear about the burglar who fell in the cement mixer? Now he's a hardened criminal.
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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