The Collaborative International Dictionary
Virgilian \Vir*gil"i*an\, a. [L. Virgilianus, better Vergilianus.] Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling the style of Virgil. [Spelt also Vergilian.]
The rich Virgilian rustic measure
Of Lari Maxume.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, from Latin Virgilianus "of or characteristic of the Roman poet Virgil" (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 B.C.E.). Also in Virgilian lots (Latin sortes Virgilianae), opening Virgil at random as an oracle.
Usage examples of "virgilian".
Virgilian figure, not Homeric, and has about it the uniquely Virgilian plangency.
The prayer exemplifies too that association of Virgilian religion with geography which makes part of its charm, as well as those associations with tradition and festival which the unquoted remainder will introduce.
Marsi strikes a characteristic Virgilian note of melancholy and nostalgia, a note produced by the personal accents of sorrow over human and heroic values lost.
But to test these descriptions of Virgilian pathos, we must now turn to the Homeric originals that they at once imitate and transform.
Once again, a comparison with Homer may help us to focus on the quality of the Virgilian pathos.
They place her in that tragic moment of history and consciousness that succeeded the era of the Homeric epics, and that it is the task of Virgilian epic to overcome.
In this last book we are taken back to book 7 and the first outbreak of war-madness in a structure of returning symmetry: the Virgilian Iliad ends as it began.
The narrative is complete, the presented world of the Virgilian Iliad stops, with the death of Turnus as Hector and the triumph of Aeneas as Achilles.
In the midst of the trees is a small house where sleeps a good-natured, intellectual man, a sage who passes his days in this Virgilian region.
In his quiet style, he backstopped the head of it, Lord Advisor Chardon, so well that afterward he received a raise in grade, and was appointed High Commissioner of the Virgilian System, at the opposite end of the Empire.
I hope to proceed firmly but humanely with the reintegration of the Virgilian system into Imperial life.
Lord Advisor Chardon passed on certain complaints from Sector Governor Muratori, about a seeming lack of zeal in the reconstruction of the Virgilian System, and asked for explanations.
Yet Horace, Catullus, Ovid, and generally the other great writers of the Virgilian age, saw man and nature in the mirror of Greece.
We care nothing about the ancients on Highgate Hill--but at Baiae, Pompeii, by the Virgilian Hades, the ancients are society with which we thirst to be familiar.
Emily or any of the scouts of expressing their feelings in Virgilian hexameters.