Vergilian

In all his plays Shakespeare uses the Vergilian figure hendiadys some three hundred times, most frequently in his middle plays and most of all in Hamlet.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

As Prof. Marsh informs us, Guglielmo Gorni ( "Storia del Certame Coronario," Rinascimento, 1972, pp. 139-149, n. 2) has suggested that for Alberti's portrait medal, the phrase has been excerpted from another Vergilian passage in which it really means "So what?"

'So What?' Marsh, David 1995

This Vergilian line is the one in which "quid tum?" has more color than anywhere else; Gorni's observation is therefore one to be taken seriously.

'So What?' Marsh, David 1995

Greco-Roman world this was, so far as we know, a novel idea: cyclic theories implied an eventual recur - rence of the Golden Age, but no pre-Vergilian text suggests that it is imminent.

PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY E. R. DODDS 1968

His two chief disciples, D'Annunzio and Pascoli, antithetical in almost all points, may be said to have divided his inheritance in this; Pascoli's Vergilian economy contrasting with the exuberance of D'Annunzio somewhat as with us the classicism of the present poet-laureate with that of Swinburne.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

The motto of this paper is not the Vergilian "Arms and the man I sing," but simply "The man I sing" -- and the woman.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

The motto of this paper is not the Vergilian "Arms and the man I sing," but simply "The man I sing" -- and the woman.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 3 Lyndon Orr

It has many imaginative phrases, and the meticulous exactness of its miniature work might seem to be Vergilian were it not for the unrelieved plainness of the theme.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

Though it was accepted as Vergilian by Renaissance readers simply because the manuscripts of the poem and ancient writers, from Lucan and Statius to Martial and Suetonius, all attribute the work to him, recent critics have usually been skeptical or downright recusant.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

Quite Vergilian is the repression of the shout of victory.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922