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

A vestige of the attraction which his words had for an older school of English politicians may be traced in the survival of Virgilian quotation in some of the parliamentary warfare of recent times.

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