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Vergil

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Ver·gil  (vûrjl)
See Virgil.

Vergil [ˈvɜːdʒɪl]
n
(Biographies) a variant spelling of Virgil
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Noun1.Vergil - a Roman poetVergil - a Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC)
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Vergil [ˈvɜːdʒɪl] NVirgilio
Vergil
nVirgil m, → Vergil m


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Only the rare and exceptional genius of Vergil and Milton could use the Homeric medium without loss of individuality: and this quality none of the later epic poets seem to have possessed.
Vergil and Cicero were regarded no longer as mysterious prophets from a dimly imagined past, but as real men of flesh and blood, speaking out of experiences remote in time from the present but no less humanly real.
Another book I have which I call 'The Supplement to Polydore Vergil,' which treats of the invention of things, and is a work of great erudition and research, for I establish and elucidate elegantly some things of great importance which Polydore omitted to mention.
 
 
 
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