Michael " Mike " Jones ( born June 13, 1962 ) is an American professional wrestler, who most recently performed for World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring name Virgil, where he appeared on its Raw brand as Ted DiBiase, Jr .' s personal assistant.

A group of small works attributed to the youthful Virgil by the commentators survive collected under the title Appendix Vergiliana, but are largely considered spurious by scholars.

Styling was not initially Dodge ’ s strong point during this period, though that began to change by 1953 under the direction of corporate design chief Virgil Exner.

Though he had read Virgil, considered the greatest Latin stylist, he cautions us that " We ought not to relate their lying fables, lest we fall under sentence of eternal death.

Berlioz appears to have been innately Romantic, this characteristic manifesting itself in his love affairs, adoration of great romantic literature, and his weeping at passages by Virgil ( by age twelve he had learned to read Virgil in Latin and translate it into French under his father's tutelage ), Shakespeare, and Beethoven.

To avoid alarming Tombstone's public, Virgil returned to Hafford's Saloon carrying the shotgun under his long overcoat.

Virgil, like other Romans, hoped that peace was at hand and looked forward to a Golden Age under Pollio's consulship.

After a brief sojourn in France they were prominent among the literary figures of New York throughout the 1940s, with Paul working under Virgil Thomson as a music critic at the New York Herald Tribune.

Some of his criticisms on Virgil may be preserved in the commentary on the Bucolics and Georgics which goes under his name.

Republicans under the Empire remembered him fondly, and the poet Virgil, writing under Augustus, made Cato a hero in his Aeneid.

" Virgil and Livy mentioned the preparation under the name Libum.

* Virgil Franklin Partch, a cartoonist writing under the name " VIP "

Virgil kept looting under control and chased off lot jumpers who tried to take over property.

On Monday, March 20, Virgil and Allie left Tombstone for California under heavy guard.

In the episode " Kidnapped ," Robert acknowledged the truth that had been right under his nose: his son, Virgil, was Static.

During the " Romanian war scare " of March 1939, when the Romanian government, as part of an effort to enlist British support against German demands for the control of the Romanian oil industry, had the Romanian Minister in London Virgil Tilea make a series of highly misleading statements to the British government to the effect that they were under the verge of an immediate German invasion, Bonnet happened to be in London as part of the company accompanying the state visit of President Albert Lebrun.

The most remarkable, contained in his Chronologiae ex nummis antiquis restitutae ( 1696 ) and Prolegomena ad censuram veterum scriptorum, was to the effect that, with the exception of the works of Homer, Herodotus and Cicero, the Natural History of Pliny, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Satires and Epistles of Horace, all the ancient classics of Greece and Rome were spurious, having been manufactured by monks of the 13th century, under the direction of a certain Severus Archontius.

The knowledge of his role in the murder is too much for Virgil, who attempts to commit suicide after calling over Han under the premise of watching some pornography.

After the demise of Adam's House Cat, Cooley and Hood performed as a duo under the name " Virgil Kane.

Following the end of World War II, Macherot began his career producing a few cartoons in the style of Virgil Partch for the satirical weekly Pan, under the pseudonym " Zara ".

Of his models the chief is Virgil, of whom ( under the name of Tityrus ) he speaks with great enthusiasm ; he is also indebted to Ovid and Theocritus.

It was generally celebrated in October, sometimes on the 5th, but in the latter part of the 20th Century the world community celebrated it on 15 October, the birthday of Virgil, the Roman epic poet and poet laureate under Augustus.

Some of the poems may be attempts to pass works off under Virgil's name as pseudepigraphia, such as the Catalepton, while others seem to be independent works that were subsumed into the collection like the Ciris which is influenced more by the late Republican neoterics than 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.

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.

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.

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.

Virgil will occasionally deviate from the strict rules of the meter to produce a special effect.

One example from I. 105 describing a ship at sea during a storm has Virgil violating metrical standards to place a single-syllable word at the end of the line:

According to the Historia Augusta, he quoted from Virgil while doing so.

An intellectual autodidact, his tastes in literature were typical of an educated Victorian painter, including Spenser, Virgil, Ruskin and Tennyson, from whose works much of his iconography can be traced.

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

Like the French epics, such as the Chanson de Roland, Homeric poetry is indigenous and, by the ease of movement and its resultant simplicity, distinguishable from the works of Dante, Milton and Virgil.

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.

More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from Plato to Virgil.

Petrarch revived the work and letters of the ancient Roman Senate | Roman Senator Cicero | Marcus Tullius CiceroPetrarch also published many volumes of his letters, including a few written to his long-dead friends from history such as Cicero and Virgil.

He wrote in a colloquial style far from the codified form of Latin that is found in Ovid or Virgil.

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 '.

Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.

Writing during the time of Augustus, Virgil has his hero give a first-person account of the fall of Troy in the second of the Aeneid's twelve books ; the Trojan Horse, which does not appear in " The Iliad ", became legendary from Virgil's account.

Composer David Raksin wrote original music and adapted music from The River ( a documentary film score by concert composer Virgil Thomson ).

Tolkien, by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick, by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy, Virgil and The Brontë sisters, and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf, by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows and The Jungle Book, by Norse mythology, and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.

Although the commentaries no doubt record much factual information about Virgil, some of their evidence can be shown to rely on inferences made from his poetry and allegorizing ; thus, Virgil's biographical tradition remains problematic.

Macrobius says that Virgil's father was of a humble background ; however, scholars generally believe that Virgil was from an equestrian landowning family which could afford to give him an education.

After his victory in the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, fought against the army led by the assassins of Julius Caesar, Octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land expropriated from towns in northern Italy, supposedly including, according to the tradition, an estate near Mantua belonging to Virgil.

At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.