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

What is particularly stimulating, whether one accepts the claim or not that Virgilian style and sensibility are reflected in Milton, is the continual illumination of the classics by the vernacular and particularly by modern example.

From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Trapp, Joseph