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

Jason accordingly possesses only that indirect hold upon our attention which belongs to the Virgilian �neas; although Mr. Morris has avoided Virgil's error of now and then allowing his hero to be contemptible.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry