Virgilian

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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

But among other testimonies to the power of Virgilian associations, one may be quoted from another great poet, whose mind was less attuned to Latin than to Greek and English poetry.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.