How To Use Vergil In A Sentence
- Consequently, in recognition of this benefaction, painters and sculptors represent him as holding up the firmament, and the Atlantides, his daughters, whom we call "Vergiliae" and the Greeks [Greek: Pleiades], are consecrated in the firmament among the constellations. The Ten Books on Architecture
- For those of us interested in serious literature (e.g. Homer, Vergil, Shakespeare), Achebe is a joke, an insult. Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Health Care Plan
- But the beauty of the descriptions in _Evangeline_ and the pathos -- somewhat too drawn out -- of the story made it dear to a multitude of readers who cared nothing about the technical disputes of Poe and other critics as to whether or not Longfellow's lines were sufficiently "spondaic" to represent truthfully the quantitative hexameters of Homer and Vergil. Initial Studies in American Letters
- The name Rea Silvia is ancient, but Rea is only a surname: _rea femmina_ often occurs in Boccaccio, and is used to this day in Tuscany to designate a woman whose reputation is blighted; a priestess Rea is described by Vergil as having been overpowered by Hercules. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
- The Roman poets were read at school, and allegorism Christianized them — not only Vergil but also Ovid. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- _ 13, 'Securum et quietum Vergilii secessum, in quo tamen neque apud divum Augustum gratia caruit neque apud populum Romanum notitia: testes Augusti epistulae, testis ipse populus, qui auditis in theatro Vergilii versibus surrexit universus et forte praesentem spectantemque Vergilium veneratus est sic quasi Augustum.' The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
- A verse consisting of a single dactyl is thus _dactylic monometer_; of two dactyls, _dactylic dimeter_; and so on up to _dactylic hexameter_, which is the meter of Homer's "Iliad," Vergil's "Æneid," and Longfellow's Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism
- Vergil: I see, a devil inside you has awakened as well.
- The roof was overgilt by the sunlight.
- And when Augustus brought these conflicts to an end, there was a host of high-minded individuals, such as Vergil, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta - Nobel Lecture
