Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin:

Caesurae were widely used in Latin poetry, for example in the opening line of Virgil's Aeneid:

Lucan emphasizes the despair of his topic in the poem's first seven lines ( the same length as the opening to Virgil's Aeneid ):

Although it is primarily an all-girls school, until the opening of St Virgil's College in 1911, the college catered for boys in senior grades as well.

It was chosen from Virgil's epic poem Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

Recent English verse translations include those by British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1963 ) which strove to render Virgil's original hexameter line, Allen Mandelbaum ( honoured by a 1973 National Book Award ), Library of Congress Poet Laureate Robert Fitzgerald ( 1981 ), Stanley Lombardo ( 2005 ), Robert Fagles ( 2006 ), and Sarah Ruden ( 2008 ).

While questioning Sinon, the Trojan priest Laocoön guesses the plot and warns the Trojans, in Virgil's famous line " Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes " ( I fear Greeks even those bearing gifts ), which became known as ' beware of Greeks bearing gifts ," Danaos being the ones who built the Trojan Horse.

Though Powell referred to the speech as " the Birmingham speech ", it is otherwise known as the " Rivers of Blood " speech, a title derived from its allusion to a line from Virgil's Aeneid.

One line, referring to Virgil's Aeneis, is sometimes quoted:

It comes from Virgil's Aeneid, Book VIII, line 441, as the god Vulcan encourages his workers at the forge.

It is taken from Virgil's Aeneid, Book VIII, line 441, where the words are spoken by the god Vulcan to encourage his workers.

The Latin phrase appears to be an adaptation from Virgil's Aeneid where in Book II, line 777 the words "... non haec sine numine devum eveniunt " are found.

" together with Florio's English translation of Montaigne's adaptation of Virgil's line: " Whence so dyre desire of Light on wretches grow?

Scored for an orchestra of more conventional size this work plays for some 57 minutes, and includes a chorus singing wordlessly in the second movement, and, in the finale, singing a text of one line only, taken from Virgil's epic, the Aeneid, Sunt lacrimae rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt (" These are the tears of things which pierce the universal heart ").

The painting illustrates the line from Virgil's Eclogues X. 69, Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori (" Love conquers all ; let us all yield to love !").

Before he was a senator of Lübeck and sent three times as ambassador Lübeck's to Paris, where he attended on 1 April 1810 the marriage of Napoleon I and Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma in the Louvre and later the " banquet imperial " there, distorting in his ironical, Jonathan Swift citing comment a line of Virgil's Aeneid: " quaeque et pulcerrima vidi, et quorum pars parva fui.

The film's title was taken from Virgil's line in In the Heat of the Night.

Terebinth from Oricum is referred to in Virgil's Aeneid, Book 10, line 136, where Ascanius in battle is compared to " ivory skilfully inlaid in [...] Orician terebinth " (" inclusum [...] Oricia terebintho [...] ebur ").

The Annals became a school text for Roman schoolchildren, eventually supplanted by Virgil's Aeneid.

From Virgil's admiring references to the neoteric writers Pollio and Cinna, it has been inferred that he was, for a time, associated with Catullus ' neoteric circle.

He was for some time engaged in the production of a magnificent folio manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, and in the course of that work had begun to translate the poem into English verse.

Virgil's Latin has been praised for its evenness, subtlety and dignity.

He makes way thereby for Aragorn to become the future king of Gondor, in a manner similar to Virgil's character Turnus.

This was supposedly inspired by Virgil's Eclogues: ... mate Gryphons with mares, and in the coming age shy deer and hounds together come to drink .., which would also be the source for the reputed medieval expression, if indeed it was one.

In Virgil's Aeneid, the twins of Aloeus are found in Dis, the Roman name for Hades, and there Aeneas sees them being punished by Rhadamanthus.

This choice may express Virgil's love for his native land, but in any case shows the need for a new creative force at this change in the direction of the poem.

His death is also alluded to in Virgil's Aeneid, when Aeneas encounters a tree that bleeds while on his quest to found a new home for the Trojan people.

In Virgil's Aeneid, VIII, where Aeneas and his crew first come upon Evander and his people, they were venerating Hercules for dispatching the giant Cacus.

It is quoted from Virgil's Aeneid book VI, and the archives do not record the reasons for its choice.

In Book VII of Virgil's Aeneid, the twin brothers, Catillus and Coras, leave Tibur and head for Latium to fight against Aeneas and the Trojans as an ally of Turnus.

In Virgil's Aeneid, during a funerary ship race Aeneas gives to Sergestus a Cretan slave girl named Pholoe in gratitude for saving both ship and crew.

In Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid, Pygmalion is the cruel-hearted brother of Dido who secretly kills Dido's husband Sychaeus because of his lust for gold.

The boy's mother, Virgil's Aunt Ruda, blames Virgil for the incident and cuts herself off from the rest of the family, insisting, “ There ain ’ t no family.

In Virgil's Aeneid, a cave on the Aventine's rocky slope next the river is home to the monstrous Cacus, killed by Hercules for stealing Geryon's cattle.

He also encouraged the publication of works such as Virgil's Æneid, which depicted " pious Æneas ", the legendary ancestor of Rome, as a role model for Roman religiosity.

Augustus, for instance, was so much incensed at seeing a meeting of citizens without the toga, that, quoting Virgil's lines, " Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam " (" Romans, lords of the world, the toga-wearing race "), he gave orders to the aediles that in the future no one was to appear in the Forum or Circus without it.

A return may, indeed, be impossible: Aeneas quests for a homeland, having lost Troy at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid, and he does not return to Troy to re-found it but settles in Italy ( to become an ancestor of the Romans ).

The eroticism of Virgil's second eclogue, Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin (" The shepherd Corydon burned with passion for pretty Alexis ") is entirely homosexual, although the use of that term is anachronistic due to a lack of any idea of sexual identity in the times in which Virgil was writing.

It has been speculated ( Spargo, Virgil the Necromancer, 1934 ) that Neckam might also have been unwittingly responsible for starting the late medieval legends about Virgil's alleged magical powers.

This may have been misinterpreted by later readers as " Virgil made a mosquito ", and form the basis for the legend of Virgil's magic fly which killed all other flies it came across and thus preserved civic hygiene.

The Argonautica is an epic poem probably intended to be in eight books ( though intended totals of ten and twelve books, the latter corresponding to Virgil's " Aeneid ", an important poetic model, have also been proposed ) written in traditional dactylic hexameters, which recounts Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece.