Word: virgilianized
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...lecture, which is being held under the auspices of the department of Romance Languages and Literatures, is presented as part of Harvard's commemoration of the Virgilian bimillenary. This fall several departments of the University have arranged for lectures in commemoration of Virgil's birth. During the birthday week of Virgil last October, three lectures were given in the Fogg Museum under the auspices of the department of Classics...
...farm near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro, greatest Roman poet, suave and brilliant favorite of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, frequent guest of Tycoon Maecenas. From now on until Virgil's 2,000th birthday in October Italian gardeners will be furiously busy planting the Lucus Virgili or "Virgilian Wood," a great new park on the outskirts of Mantua, a modern version of the sacred groves of the ancient Romans, who planted groves of trees which in aspiring to heaven might honor their gods, goddesses. Because Poet Virgil mentioned 25,000 trees, shrubs and plants in his lengthy lays, specimens...
...scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...