1. (n.)Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) 70–19 b .c ., Roman poet: author of The Aeneid.
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1. (noun)Virgil, Vergil, Publius Vergilius Maro a Roman poet; author of the epicpoem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC)
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. Virgil greatLatin poet, born near Mantua, author in succession of the "Eclogues," the "Georgics," and the "Æneid"; studied at Cremona and Milan, and at 16 was sent to Rome to studyrhetoric and philosophy, lost a property he had in Cremona during the civil war, but recommended himself to Pollio, the governor, who introduced him to Augustus, and he went to settle in Rome; here, in 37 B.C., he published his "Eclogues," a collection of 10 pastorals, and gained the patronage of Mæcenas, under whose favour he was able to retire to a villa at Naples, where in sevenyears he, in 30 B.C., produced the "Georgics," in four books, on the art of husbandry, after which he devoted himself to his greatwork the "Æneid," or the story of Æneas of Troy, an epic in 12 books, connecting the hero with the foundation of Rome, and especially with the Julian family, and which was finished in 19 B.C.; on his deathbed he expressed a wish that it should be burned, and leftinstructions to that effect in his will; he was one of the purest-minded poets perhaps that ever lived (70-19 B.C.).
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