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Virgilian

adjective as in classical

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By token of your Virgilian diversions shall I assume that you are a collegian, really or almost?

Wilde may have happened on the Life of Wainewright, and taken it, among all the books he had read, as a kind of Virgilian omen.

The first an imitation of Sortes Homeric; or Virgilian, drawing determinations from verses casually occurring.

His acquaintance with the Latin poets was limited, and seldom does a Virgilian or Horatian expression occur in his verses.

He had a Virgilian soul; and if his colouring recalls that of Weber, his design has often an Italian suavity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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