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virgil
/ˈvɝdʒɪl/
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What does virgil mean?
proper noun
- Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
- A male given name from Latin.
- A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- A township and village therein, in Kane County, Illinois.
- A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Cortland County, New York.
- A small town in Beadle County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.
noun
- (archaic) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈvɝdʒɪl/
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It came over me, as it had never done before, the relation between girls like those and the poetry of Virgil.
As for Virgil, he sang according to the knowledge of men in his time, as another poet did of the hot zone.
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He commanded loudly that a book of exorcisms be brought, and under a previous arrangement, his attendants brought him a copy of Virgil.
And if he have found profit in poetry, as the great Virgil relates that he had done in Ennius, he will not have done amiss.
Ovid and Virgil both refer to legendary hermaphrodites, and the knowledge of their existence was prevalent in the olden times.