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Virgil and Ellen
In February 1860, while living in Pella, Iowa, 16-year-old Virgil eloped with 18-year-old Dutch immigrant Magdalena C. " Ellen " Rysdam ( born November 25, 1842 in Utrecht, Netherlands died May 3, 1910 in Cornelius, Oregon ).
In the summer of 1863, Ellen was told by her parents and by the Earps that Virgil had died in Tennessee and she left Pella with her parents and daughter for the Oregon Territory.
Virgil was reconnected with Ellen and their daughter 37 years later.
After returning from the Civil War as a young man, his wife Ellen and daughter Nellie had disappeared, having been told that Virgil had been killed in the war.
The next year, encouraged by his wife, Virgil traveled to Portland, Oregon where he was reunited with Ellen and Nellie Jane Law.

Virgil and had
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.
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.
It was in 39 BC that Horace was introduced to Maecenas, who had before this received Lucius Varius Rufus and Virgil into his intimacy.
Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.
Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably the Divine Comedy of Dante, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory.
In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.
Some legends state that Virgil, fearing that he would die before he had properly revised the poem, gave instructions to friends ( including the current emperor, Augustus ) that the Aeneid should be burned upon his death, owing to its unfinished state and because he had come to dislike one of the sequences in Book VIII, in which Venus and Vulcan have sexual intercourse, for its nonconformity to Roman moral virtues.
She had an " exquisite " poise and a famously graceful deportment ; Horace Walpole once quoted Virgil as to her gait, saying, " vera incessu patuit dea " ( she was in truth revealed to be a goddess by her step ).
Virgil later gave the family an ancestor, Sergestus, who had come with Aeneas to Italy, presumably because they were notably ancient ; but they had not been prominent for centuries.
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.
" The exaltation of the rural life as a retreat from the noise of urbanity had the sanction of a long and distinguished history ; as Levey writes, " Virgil recommended it, Petrarch practiced it, and Zucccarelli illustrated it.
Virgil Earp had been given the job of Deputy U. S. Marshal for the region around Tombstone only days before his arrival.
James, Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan, and Warren Earp were a tight-knit family who had worked and served together as deputy marshal, marshal, sheriff, and saloon owners in several towns, among other occupations, and had moved together from location to location.
Virgil Earp thought that some of the Cowboys had met at Charleston, Arizona and taken " an oath over blood drawn from the arm of Johnny Ringo, the leader, that they would kill us.
Lake's creative biography and later Hollywood portrayals boosted Wyatt's profile as a western lawman, when in fact his brother Virgil had far more experience as a sheriff, constable, and marshal.
Among those involved in the shooting, only Virgil Earp had any real experience in combat.
Virgil served for three years during the Civil War and had also been involved in a police shooting in Prescott, Arizona Territory.
On July 25, 1880, Captain Joseph H. Hurst, of Company A, 12th Infantry, and Commanding Officer of Fort Bennett, asked Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp to help him track Cowboys who had stolen six U. S. Army mules from Camp Rucker.
Virgil said later said that Frank had asked him if he had posted the handbills.

Virgil and daughter
According to Homer, Hecuba was the daughter of King Dymas of Phrygia, but Euripides and Virgil write of her as the daughter of the Thracian king Cisseus.
Neither Homer nor Virgil gives the reader any foreshadowing of Diomedes's death except for a passage in the Iliad in which Dione, Aphrodite's mother, comforts the goddess of love ( after she has been injured by Diomedes ), telling her daughter that " the man who fights the gods does not live long " and will not be welcomed home from war by his children on his lap ( 5. 407-409 ).
Born Julia Jean Turner in Wallace, Idaho, she was the daughter of John Virgil Madison Turner, a miner from Hohenwald, Tennessee ( January 23, 1903 December 14, 1930 ), and Mildred Frances Cowan, a sixteen-year-old native of Arkansas ( June 19, 1904 February 22, 1982 ).
Virgil did not see her or his daughter again for 37 years.
When Virgil left to serve in the Civil War, his daughter was two weeks old.
Joxer and Virgil travel with them in search of Eve, Xena's daughter.
When his wife died in Tyrol he continued his work with his daughter, who became quite a Virgil expert in her own right, and crossed the Alps seventeen times.
The song is based on The Iliad by Homer and on the Aeneid by Virgil, and narrates the final days of Troy, as foreseen by Cassandra, daughter of the king of the destroyed city.

Virgil and Nellie
Later that year, according to her letter to The Oregonian, Nellie Jane visited Virgil and Allie Earp at their home in Arizona.

Virgil and Jane
Many members of the international " haiku community " also got their first views of haiku from Blyth's books, including American author James W. Hackett ( born 1929 ), Eric Amann, William J. Higginson, Anita Virgil, Jane Reichhold, and Lee Gurga.

Virgil and Earp
* December 28 Virgil Earp is ambushed in Tombstone and loses the use of his left arm.
The gunfight, believed to have lasted only about thirty seconds, was fought between the outlaw Cowboys Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and his brother Frank McLaury, and the opposing lawmen Virgil Earp and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt Earp, aided by Doc Holliday acting as a temporary deputy of Virgil.
Lawmen Holliday and Morgan and Virgil Earp were wounded.
On December 28, 1881, Virgil Earp was maimed in an assassination attempt by the outlaw Cowboys, and on March 18, 1882, they assassinated Morgan Earp.
Clum and his newspaper tended to side with the local business-owners ' interests, and supported Marshal Virgil Earp.
Virgil Earp
Wyatt, James and Virgil Earp, along with their wives, arrived in Tombstone during the initial period of its chaotic growth on about December 1, 1879 when there were only a few hundred residents.
Hurst brought four soldiers, and Virgil invited Wyatt and Morgan Earp, as well as Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp, along with temporary federal deputies Wyatt and Morgan Earp, Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams, former Kansas Sheriff Bat Masterson ( who was dealing faro at the Oriental Saloon ), and County Sheriff Behan set out to find the robbers.
Ike Clanton later testified at the Spicer hearing that Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, and Morgan Earp had all confided in him that they had actually been involved in the stage robbery.
Wyatt and Virgil Earp rode with a sheriff's posse and tracked the Bisbee stage robbers.
Frank Stilwell had just arrived in Bisbee with his livery stable partner, Pete Spence, when the two were arrested by Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp for the holdup.
Released on bail, Spence and Stilwell were re-arrested October 13 by Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp for the Bisbee robbery on a new federal charge of interfering with a mail carrier.

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