1. virgil - Noun
2. Virgil - Proper noun
Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
Coordinate term: Horace
(mainly US) A male given name from Latin.
virgil (plural virgils)
(typography, UK, archaic) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. Francis Bacon
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent. Pierre Bayle
Arguably the best version of Virgil in English poetry. Gavin Douglas
I have found, by trial, Homer a more pleasing task than Virgil (though I say not the translation will be less laborious); for the Grecian is more according to my genius, than the Latin poet. John Dryden
It is not a new opinion that the Golden Bough was the mistletoe. True, Virgil does not identify but only compares it with the mistletoe. But this may be only a poetical device to cast a mystic glamour over the humble plant. James Frazer
Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair. Helen Keller