Virgil
['və:dʒil]
Definition
(noun.) a Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC).
Edited by Fergus--From WordNet
Examples
- Cato and Varro, Virgil and Columella, Pliny and Palladius delighted to instruct the farmer and praise his occupation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I am afraid you don't know your Virgil, Mr Roylands. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Fred Lamb's choice was happy, Milton, Shakespeare, Byron, _The Rambler_, Virgil, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Even in the Elysian fields, Virgil describes the souls of the happy as eager to drink of the wave which was to restore them to this mortal coil. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You don't know Virgil. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Rosanne