Virgilian
English
Alternative forms
- Vergilian
Etymology
Virgil + -ian
Adjective
Virgilian (comparative more Virgilian, superlative most Virgilian)
- Of or pertaining to Virgil (Roman writer)
- 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Very Old Folk:
- This Virgilian diversion, together with the spectral thoughts incident to All Hallows’ Eve with its Witch-Sabbaths on the hills, produced in me last Monday night a Roman dream of such supernal clearness and vividness, and such titanic adumbrations of hidden horror, that I verily believe I shall some day employ it in fiction.
- 2008, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Michael C. J. Putnam, The Virgilian tradition: the first fifteen hundred years, →ISBN, page 439:
- Not a single extant Virgilian manuscript survives from the ninth century, despite the number of ninth-century manuscripts of Virgil's works and commentaries on his works.
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Translations
of or pertaining to Virgil
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Anagrams
- virginial