Virgilian

Example Sentences

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Constable was a realist: English artists before him could not paint a landscape without making it look like Italy, littering it with Virgilian shepherds, cavorting satyrs and comely river gods.

From Washington Post

They read like Virgilian eclogues in the age of autocorrect.

From The New Yorker

In 2010, Heaney started to deal with this Virgilian fragment obliquely, publishing “Human Chain”, his last full collection before his death in 2013.

From Economist

“There’s one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas’s venture into the underworld,” he said in “Stepping Stones,” his 2008 book of interviews with Dennis O’Driscoll.

From New York Times

After touring the Ducal Palace, we were invited to the palace of the Virgilian Academy.

From Washington Post