And when Augustus brought these conflicts to an end, there was a host of high-minded individuals, such as Vergil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernesto Teodoro Moneta - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Demosthenes, Vergil over both Theocritus and Homer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Vergil claims that the city was founded by Aeneas himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Albanian Soil] Reference

I had taken out a Vergil with me and had begun reading it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference

Dante lost sight of Vergil, who could accompany him no further.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

And he tells an interesting anecdote about a manuscript of Vergil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it] Reference

Vergil Gunch seemed less cordial, there were no visible effects of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babbit] Reference

Those words were written by Vergil in Italy more than 2,000 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks At Arrival Ceremony For Prime Minister Prodi] Reference

Vergil told him that Divine Will had ordered him to guide Dante through.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

This applies particularly to Homer and Vergil, who are much allegorized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Theocritus and Vergil, was reinforced by the reading of travelers 'tales.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRIMITIVISM] Reference

And I do secretly wish sometimes that James Cromwell was my personal Vergil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today in Medieval and/or Puppet News] Reference

He's clearly referring to Vergil but he's being too loose with his paraphrasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

Writing to a friend, Petrarch declares that he has read Vergil, Horace, Livy, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

(Plato, Vergil, Bacon, Milton) have been educated and developed through the rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

According to Vergil, bees are produced from the putrifying entrails of a young bull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation] Reference

With Vergil as a guide, he passed through the dark portals with their solemn warning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference

Vergil, what Horace borrowed he made his own by the added beauty which he gave to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

What is new, as in the case of Vergil, is Seneca's conviction that the day is not far off.    From Wordnik.com.  [PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY] Reference

But this version, which is not purely primitivistic, we owe to Vergil (Aeneid VIII, 314-27).    From Wordnik.com.  [PRIMITIVISM] Reference

That same evening the door of a convent opened to receive a novice with two books, Vergil and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference

So the young Montaigne grew up speaking Latin and reading Vergil, Ovid, and Horace on his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michel de Montaigne] Reference

As Vergil kept Dante unscathed by the flames of the divine vision, will not our poet protect us?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

Tarchon is the name of the legendary hero of the Etruscan city of Tarquinia, mentioned by Vergil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

I may get to get my CAMS nerd on by doing a dramatic interpretation of Vergil for a class o 'mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [bard Diary Entry] Reference

Vergil and Horace regard themselves and are regarded by their contemporaries as spokesmen of Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

However lax he might be about early rising and the prosody of Vergil, he was tireless in tinkering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babbit] Reference

She has ten or eleven syllables to a verse, where Vergil and Fagles have up to seventeen syllables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closer Than Ever to Vergil] Reference

The Roman poets were read at school, and allegorism Christianized them — not only Vergil but also Ovid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

But Vergil bade Dante hide his eyes, and to be sure that he might be saved he covered them with his own hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

The inferiority of his position galled one who claimed Vergil and Homer as his equals in the world of letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference

It has often been said that "Gerhardt had and sought no laurels"; nor was he ever "hailed as the Homer or Vergil of his time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody] Reference

Vergil, more than anybody else, made pius an attribute of the ideal Roman, and thus rendered impius an un-Roman qualification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Horace, Ovid, Petrarch, Vergil, and others, and left a number of fragments including the outline of a pretentious novel of which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei] Reference

It was written by Vergil, who lived in the first century B. C., and is one of the classics which every one who studies Latin takes up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference

Their colloquial Latin naturally lacked the elegance of the literary Latin used by Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, and other classical authors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

As he stood there he was aware of a presence close by, the stately figure of a man, who proved to be the great Roman poet, Vergil, -- and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference