According to the mythology outlined by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people.

* Virgil, Aeneid ;

In the Aeneid by Virgil, Juno offers Aeolus the nymph Deiopea as a wife if he will release his winds upon the fleet of Aeneas.

This branch is the literary source of the " golden bough " in the Aeneid by Virgil.

In an invention of Virgil ( Aeneid VI ), Daedalus flies to Cumae and founds his temple there, rather than in Sicily ; long afterwards Aeneas confronts the sculpted golden doors of the temple.

** Aeneid by Virgil ( Roman mythology )

Virgil, probably working from an Alexandrian source, recognized three: Alecto (" unnameable " who appeared in Virgil's Aeneid ), Megaera (" grudging "), and Tisiphone (" vengeful destruction ").

* Virgil, Aeneid vii, 324, 341, 415, 476.

" Virgil, in the Aeneid, has Aeneas ' father Anchises mention Fabius Maximus while in Hades as the greatest of the many great Fabii, quoting the same line.

Father-daughter incest was for many years the most commonly reported and studied form of incest .< ref > Aeneid by Virgil, Book VI: " hic thalamum invasit natae vetitosque hymenaeos ;" = " this being punished in Hades < nowiki ></ nowiki > invaded a daughter's private room and a forbidden marital relationship.

For example, Euler could repeat the Aeneid of Virgil from beginning to end without hesitation, and for every page in the edition he could indicate which line was the first and which the last.

In the Aeneid, Virgil writes that it is only when the dead have had their memories erased by the Lethe that they may be reincarnated.

Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues ; the Georgics, perhaps the most beautiful poem ever written about country life ; and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome.

References to Lykaian Pan are especially abundant in Latin poetry, as for instance in Virgil ’ s epic, the Aeneid: “ Lupercal / Parrhasio dictum Panos de more Lycaei ,” “... the Lupercal, named after the Parrhasian worship of Lykaian Pan ,” and in Horace ’ s Odes: “ Velox amoenum saepe Lucretilem / mutat Lycaeo Faunus ,” “ Often swift Faunus exchanges Lykaion for pleasant Lucretilis .”

In the Aeneid, Virgil gives Laocoön the famous line Equo ne credite, Teucri / Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, or " Do not trust the Horse, Trojans / Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts.

Virgil employed the motif in the Aeneid.

In Aeneid Virgil describes the circumstances of Laocoön's death:

The Roman poet Virgil called it " that castled cliff, Monoecus by the sea " ( Aeneid, VI. 830 ).

This device is also used by later authors of literary epics, such as Virgil in the Aeneid, Luís de Camões in Os Lusíadas and Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock.

* Dactylic hexameter ( Homer, Iliad ; Virgil, Aeneid )

Virgil, in his Aeneid, states that Pisa was already a great center by the times described ; the settlers from the Alpheus coast have been credited with the founding of the city in the ' Etruscan lands '.

In the Aeneid, Virgil mentions rowing forming part of the funeral games arranged by Aeneas in honour of his father.

Virgil works the idea into his account of the Underworld in the sixth book of the Aeneid.

The journey of the Trojan survivor Aeneas and his resettling of Trojan refugees in Italy are the subject of the Latin epic poem The Aeneid by Virgil.

At Cumae, the Sibyl leads Aeneas on an archetypal descent to the underworld, where the shade of his dead father serves as a guide ; this book of the Aeneid directly influenced Dante, who has Virgil act as his narrator's guide.

Pasiphaë appeared in Virgil's Eclogue VI ( 45 – 60 ), in Silenus ' list of suitable mythological subjects, on which Virgil lingers in such detail that he gives the sixteen-line episode the weight of a brief inset myth.

* Hesiod, Theogony ; Homer, Odyssey, XI, 576 ff ; Virgil, Aeneid, VI, 539-627.

Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine ( Aeneid book VI ).

Virgil mentions Acheron with the other infernal rivers in his description of the underworld in Book VI of the Aeneid.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII, 305 ; XII, 171-209 and 459-525 ; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome I, 22 ; Homer, Iliad, I, 262-8 ; Virgil, Aeneid VI, 448-9 ;

Virgil considered it one of the rivers of Hades in his Aeneid VI, 659.

* a Latin phrase ( from Virgil ) meaning the spirit nourishes within and is found at ( Aeneid, VI, 726 ).

Virgil reading Aeneid, Book VI, to Octavia, by Tailasson

Marcellus was added by Virgil at the end of the list of illustrious future Romans whom Aeneas sees in the underworld in Book VI of the Aeneid.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, as the Roman poet, Virgil, declared with much more historical sense than most writers of today.

The monthly cost of ADC to more than 100,000 recipients in the county is 4.4 million dollars, said C. Virgil Martin, president of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., committee chairman.

Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as Cato, Cicero, Horace, and Virgil.

It is a mosaic from Virgil, Ovid, Lucan and Venantius Fortunatus, composed in the manner of Einhard's use of Suetonius, and exhibits a true poetic gift.

They read the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, and many others, they examined articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, and The Edinburgh Review and read history, geography and biographies.

Virgil imagines the Cyclopes in Hephaestus ' forge, who " busily burnished the aegis Athene wears in her angry moods — a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and he linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess's breast — a severed head rolling its eyes.

Friedrich Klaeber somewhat led the attempt to connect Beowulf and Virgil near the start of the 20th century, claiming that the very act of writing a secular epic in a Germanic world is contingent on Virgil.

Virgil was seen as the pinnacle of Latin literature, and Latin was the dominant literary language of England at the time, therefore making Virgilian influence highly likely.

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

He knew patristic literature, as well as Pliny the Elder, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace and other classical writers.

However, it is clear he was familiar with the works of Virgil and with Pliny the Elder's Natural History, and his monastery also owned copies of the works of Dionysius Exiguus.

A full catalogue of the library available to Bede in the monastery cannot be reconstructed, but it is possible to tell, for example, that Bede was very familiar with the works of Virgil.

It was based on Donatus ' De pedibus and Servius ' De finalibus, and used examples from Christian poets as well as Virgil.

Bede was familiar with pagan authors such as Virgil, but it was not considered appropriate to teach biblical grammar from such texts, and in De schematibus ... Bede argues for the superiority of Christian texts in understanding Christian literature.

Cincinnati's new quarterback, Virgil Carter, was known for his great mobility and accuracy but lacked a strong arm necessary to throw deep passes.

Journalist Bee Wilson states that the image of a community of honey bees " occurs from ancient to modern times, in Aristotle and Plato ; in Virgil and Seneca ; in Erasmus and Shakespeare ; Tolstoy, as well as by social theorists Bernard Mandeville and Karl Marx.

As a boy he knew Virgil by heart and composed a number of poems in Italian and Latin.

He greatly influenced poets such as Ovid, Horace, and Virgil.

Bengals quarterback Virgil Carter would be the first player to successfully implement Walsh's system, leading the NFL in pass completion percentage in 1971.

Bill Hoest, Jerry Marcus and Virgil Partch began as a magazine gag cartoonists and moved on to do syndicated comic strips.

At first he considered a career in law, but came to have, in his words, " an insurmountable aversion to everything but the pursuits of Philosophy and general Learning ; and while family fanceyed I was poring over Voet and Vinnius, Cicero and Virgil were the Authors which I was secretly devouring.