Then, this summer, Virgil Griffith, a 24-year-old Cal Tech graduate student, unearthed some eyebrow-raising data.
" In "Lavinia, " Ursula LeGuin invented the back story of Aeneas's wife in Virgil's "Aeneid.
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The judgments were somewhat opaque and never above a reference to Tacitus or Virgil.
The patronage model of poetry supported the works of such worthies as Virgil, Dryden and Shakespeare.
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Writers deprecated the Latin of the medieval philosophers and tried to write like Cicero and Virgil.
Professor Levi knows Virgil so well he hardly bothers spelling out the stages of his life.
Mayor Virgil Skipper said he has been briefed by officials and visited the boy's parents.
Mr. POITIER (as Virgil Tibbs): We were just trying to clarify some of the evidence.
In a passage in "The Waste Land" that echoes Dante's journey with Virgil through the "Inferno, " T.
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Much of this book consists in teasing out Virgil's poetry, following his themes and noting his references.
Virgil was aware of the value of myth in establishing the divine antecedents of Augustus's expanding empire.
With an old man's impatience, Professor Levi snorts at most previous Virgil scholars.
Conversely, is staying home or voting third party, say Virgil Goode (a professing Baptist), tantamount to supporting Obama?
In 70 BC, the Roman poet Virgil, author of the Aeneid, was born.
Back in the Philippines, Corpuz's 16-year-old son, Lance, and his brother Virgil, 13, open the box their father sent home.
Like Ron Paul, Virgil Goode has long supported a bill to audit the Federal Reserve, which recently cleared the House.
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Virgil and Horace enjoyed the bounty of Gaius Maecenas, and in return wrote poetic ad copy for Gaius' pal Caesar Augustus.
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And he was a student of classics who could and did spout Homer and Virgil in their original Greek and Latin.
Virgil translates: "Every Christmas he's not here, " Lance says of his father.
But why, oh why, does he not also give Virgil's original words?
Mr. SIDNEY POITIER (as Virgil Tibbs): To ask you about Mr. Colbert.
He and Virgil pass by a pit of boiling lava, where demons are pushing screaming souls back into the flaming goo with pitchforks.
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The 1970 Bengals replaced Sam Wyche with Virgil Carter, whose arm was so weak he forced his offensive coordinator to devise a new passing attack.
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If Milton took from Virgil, and Blake from Milton, and Yeats from Blake, were those fountains dry, because they were not used by most people?
Mr. Ledeen, a scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, is the author of "Virgil's Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles" (Transaction, 2011).
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Still, those who have read their Virgil may be found muttering to themselves: "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" (rough translation, 'Beware of Greeks bearing gifts').
Virgil was writing as people really speak, advancing the cause of literary realism, but also writing as they really think, advancing the cause of human psychology.
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As they unpack the brand-new sneakers, canned ham, chocolates and packages of Top Ramen noodles, it's clear that what Lance and Virgil really want for Christmas won't fit in a 20-by-20-inch cardboard box.
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