Virgilian

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Virgil +‎ -ian

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Virgilian (comparative more Virgilian, superlative most Virgilian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Virgil (Roman writer)
    • 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Very Old Folk:
      This Virgilian diversion, together with the spectral thoughts incident to All Hallows’ Eve with its Witch-Sabbaths on the hills, produced in me last Monday night a Roman dream of such supernal clearness and vividness, and such titanic adumbrations of hidden horror, that I verily believe I shall some day employ it in fiction.
    • 2008, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Michael C. J. Putnam, The Virgilian tradition: the first fifteen hundred years[1], →ISBN, page 439:
      Not a single extant Virgilian manuscript survives from the ninth century, despite the number of ninth-century manuscripts of Virgil's works and commentaries on his works.

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