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.

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.

There was no room for the new Avery unit in Schlesinger's small studio, so Avery, Jones, and fellow animators Bob Clampett, Virgil Ross, and Sid Sutherland were moved into a small adjacent building they dubbed " Termite Terrace ".

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.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

The verse form itself then was little changed as the quality of a poet's hexameter was judged against the standard set by Virgil and the other Augustan poets, a respect for literary precedent encompassed by the Latin word aemulatio.

Similarly, it was commonly believed by Medieval people that other ancient figures like the poet Virgil, astronomer Ptolemy and philosopher Aristotle had been involved in magic, and grimoires claiming to have been written by them were circulated.

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.

Ivens was, however, known for his anti-fascist and other propaganda films, including The Spanish Earth, for the Spanish loyalists, co-written with Ernest Hemingway and music by Marc Blitzstein and Virgil Thomson.

Shortly afterwards, false reports spread in mid-March 1939 by the Romanian minister in London, Virgil Tilea, that his country was on the verge of an immediate German attack, led to a dramatic U-turn in British policy of resisting commitments in Eastern Europe.

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.

Although Virgil died before he could put the finishing touches on his poem, it was soon recognized as the greatest work of Latin literature.

After Virgil died, Horace was Rome's leading poet.

Perhaps the outstanding example was John Dryden's English version of the poems of Virgil, published in 1697.

In addition Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil was published in 1945 and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus in 1947.

It was in 39 BC that Horace was introduced to Maecenas, who had before this received Lucius Varius Rufus and Virgil into his intimacy.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

That she impressed me instantly was obvious ; ;

The company was impressed with some ideas of the danger from Carolina, and when Perier came over as governor in 1727, he was given special instructions regarding the trade of the Mobile district.

The thing that impressed one of the visitors the most was the Gallery's rotunda fountain `` because it's on the second floor ''.

He was surprised and dubious, but impressed by the engineer and the report.

Widor, deeply impressed, agreed to teach Schweitzer without fee, and a great and influential friendship was begun.

When he had recovered, he sailed to the front, but was shipwrecked ; after coming ashore with a handful of companions, he crossed hostile territory to Caesar's camp, which impressed his great-uncle considerably.

He moved to Boston on April 24, 1828, and was immediately impressed, referring to the city as a place " where the light of the sun of righteousness has risen.

Einstein was impressed, translated the paper himself from English to German and submitted it for Bose to the Zeitschrift für Physik which published it.

He also was impressed with the buildings he saw, and later incorporated some of the German styles into his own constructions.

Though he was not impressed by either, he campaigned for the Democratic ticket of Buchanan and Breckenridge.

" In Washington, Lincoln planted a seed in his mind, saying he was impressed to hear that Johnson was giving consideration to raising a Negro military force.

In Milan, however, he impressed his captor with his cultured demeanor and persuaded him to let him go by making it plain that it was not in Milan's interest to prevent the victory of the Aragonese party in Naples.

It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.

Salieri quickly impressed the Emperor, and Gassmann was instructed to bring his pupil as often as he wished.

" Whorf was also excellent at attracting new customers to the Fire Insurance Company ; they were impressed by his thorough inspections and recommendations.

As a young man he produced a manuscript titled " Why I have discarded Evolution ", causing some scholars to describe him as a devout Methodist Episcopalian, who was impressed with fundamentalism, and perhaps supportive of creationism.

The other was listening to Martin Luther King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech, which impressed him enough that he later memorized it.

He was especially impressed by the flip side " Treat Me Nice " as this featured a piano.

Marshal Tallard, with 34, 000 men, reached Ulm, joining with the Elector and Marsin in Augsburg on 5 August ( although Tallard was not impressed to find that the Elector had dispersed his army in response to Marlborough's campaign of ravaging the region ).

" I was very impressed, individually, by his knowledge, by his intelligence, by his personality and hired him ," Levy said.

Einstein was impressed, translated the paper himself from English to German and submitted it for Bose to the Zeitschrift für Physik, which published it ( The Einstein manuscript, once believed to be lost, was found in a library at Leiden University in 2005 .).