Synonyms:
Virgil, Vergil, Publius_Vergilius_Maro
Meaning: a Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC)
Usage examples
"Why, I'm not doing any hinting, Virgil."
"Virgil, you WON'T go back to that hole?"
Cleric said he thought Virgil, when he was dying at Brindisi, must have remembered that passage.
Virgil in the fourth book of his Georgics, which is entirely devoted to bees, speaks of them as having received a direct emanation from the Divine Intelligence.
What comfort would it be to Virgil that boys still read him at school, or to Pindar that he is sometimes mentioned in a world from which everything he loved has departed?