Ancient commentators noted that Virgil seems to divide the Aeneid into two sections based on the poetry of Homer ; the first six books were viewed as employing the Odyssey as a model while the last six were connected to the Iliad.

The note reads: " The first years of his life Virgil spent in Cremona, right until the assumption of his toga virilis, which he accepted on his 17th birthday, when the same two men held the consulate, as when he was born, and it so happened that on the very same day Lucretius the poet passed away.

Some claim that Virgil meant to change them before he died, while others find that the location of the two passages, at the very end of the so-called Volume I ( Books 1 – 6, the Odyssey ), and Volume II ( Books 7 – 12, the Iliad ), and their short length, which contrasts with the lengthy nature of the poem, are evidence that Virgil placed them purposefully there.

However, the two deities were also considered separate by many, for instance, the epic poet Virgil, in his Aeneid, made mention of both Faunus and Pan independently.

He also wrote books of literary criticism, in particular Wordsworth ( 1881 ) and Essays, Classical and Modern ( in two volumes, 1883 ), which included a highly-regarded essay on Virgil.

A few important commissions came to him ; the French governor of Rome asked him to paint Virgil reading the Aeneid ( 1812 ) for his residence, and to paint two colossal works — Romulus's victory over Acron ( 1812 ) and The Dream of Ossian ( 1813 )— for Monte Cavallo, a former Papal residence undergoing renovation to become Napoleon's Roman palace.

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.

* Virgil T. McCroskey, 1876 – 1970, an amateur conservationist who created two state parks: Steptoe Butte state park in Washington and Mary Minerva McCroskey State Park in Idaho.

The commentary on Virgil has survived in two distinct manuscript traditions.

Dryden translated all the known works of Virgil, and Pope produced versions of the two Homeric epics.

" Another student said of Corot, " the newspapers had so distorted Corot, putting Theocritus and Virgil in his hands, that I was quite surprised to find him knowing neither Greek nor Latin … His welcome is very open, very free, very amusing: he speaks or listens to you while hopping on one foot or on two ; he sings snatches of opera in a very true voice ", but he has a " shrewd, biting side carefully hidden behind his good nature.

Wright also ignited the careers of two important fantasy artists, Virgil Finlay and Hannes Bok, by buying and publishing their work, first and frequently.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth books are devoted to Virgil, dwelling respectively on his learning in religious matters, his rhetorical skill, his debt to Homer ( with a comparison of the art of the two ) and to other Greek writers, and the nature and extent of his borrowings from the earlier Latin poets.

Only two copies of the original Leiden edition of Stanyhurst's translation of Virgil are known to be in existence.

Although predominantly known for his music, Paul Williams is also an actor, appearing in films and many television guest appearances, notably as the Faustian record producer Swan in the cult film Phantom of the Paradise ( for which he also wrote the songs ), a rock and roll remake of Phantom of the Opera, and as Virgil, the genius orangutan in Battle for the Planet of the Apes ( on Feb. 9, 1973, Williams mixed his two fields for a joke appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in which he sang a song in full make-up as Virgil ).

When Virgil left to serve in the Civil War, his daughter was two weeks old.

But less than two weeks later Ben Sippy beat Virgil for the town marshal job in a special election.

Virgil told the San Francisco Examiner two months later that upon getting off the train in Tucson, " Almost the first men we met on the platform there were Stilwell and his friends, armed to the teeth.

After receiving his injuries in Tombstone, Virgil spent the next two years recovering from his injuries, primarily at his parent's home in Colton, California.

On April 22, 1898, The Oregonian reported that Virgil "... is now enjoying a very pleasant visit with her and his two grandchildren at her home, which is near that of Mrs. Eaton, in North Portland.

With this equipment, he adopts the superhero identity " Gear " and becomes Static's full-time partner in crime-fighting. Richie did not appear in the Static comics, but is an amalgam of two of Virgil's best friends in that series: Richard ' Rick ' Stone ( who was also blonde and wore glasses ) and Frieda Goren ( with whom Virgil shared his secret identity as Static ).

After the events involving two of her fellow students as the culprits, she enrolls in the same school as Virgil, Richie and Frieda.

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.

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.

) Virgil relates that in the very earliest times the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians had dedicated a grove and a festival to Silvanus.

" She was very supportive, and introduced Antheil to her circle of friends and customers including Erik Satie, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Virgil Thompson and Ernest Hemingway.

I must confess my Latin wasn't sufficient to appreciate the sense that Virgil was making with his marvelous hexameters, but Klein's zeal and enthusiasm, his forceful delivery, his very genuine love of language, of poetry, all came through to me at that time.

In a March 1882 interview with the Arizona Daily Star, Virgil Earp told the reporter, " There was something very peculiar about Doc.

She was very important to all of her family, especially Virgil.

Virgil Thomson called the symphony " written for the slow-witted, the not very musical and the distracted ,"

Virgil Thomson wrote that, " It seems to have been written for the slow-witted, the not very musical and the distracted ," adding that if Shostakovich continued writing in this manner, it might " eventually disqualify him for consideration as a serious composer.

In 1911, Virgil Bogue produced a civic master plan for Seattle ’ s Municipal Plans Commission in which he promoted the idea of Lake Union as an industrial area: “ The fact that ( Lake Union ) is located in the very heart of the city indicates that if properly developed it will become a most important factor in the commercial and business activities of the city .” ( Seattle Municipal Plans Commission 1911, p. 78 ) Completion of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard locks in 1917 guaranteed the success of shipping and shipbuilding industries on Lake Union and thus of the Bogue vision, despite the fact that his plan was defeated by voters.

Virgil is over ten thousand years old, and is very knowledgeable about both the past and future.

In 1954, classical composer Virgil Thomson described her voice as " very low and warm, very high and birdlike ", noting that her range " is very close to four octaves, but is in no way inhuman or outlandish in sound.

Pope draws a parallel between these two critics and his own dunces by quoting John Dennis who thought it likely that Bavius " and Maevius had ( even in Augustus's days ) a very formidable Party at Rome, who thought them much superior to Virgil and Horace: For ( saith he ) I cannot believe they would have fix'd that eternal brand upon them, if they had not been coxcombs in more than ordinary credit " ( Dunciad Variorum ).

In his biography in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius attests to Domitian's ability to quote the important poets and writers such as Homer or Virgil on appropriate occasions, and describes him as a learned and educated adolescent, with elegant conversation.

X. 1. 95 ), Varro was recognized as an important source by many other ancient authors, among them Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Virgil in the Georgics, Columella, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, Augustine, and Vitruvius, who credits him ( VII. Intr. 14 ) with a book on architecture.

Ferguson's research opened the way for many of the achievements of the Celtic Revival, especially those of Yeats and Douglas Hyde, but this narrative of Irish poetry which leads to the Revival as culmination can also be deceptive and occlude important poetry, such as the work of James Henry ( 1798 – 1876 ), medical doctor, Virgil scholar and poet.

In his Latin verse he often successfully imitated the classical models ; his comedies are not without freshness and vivacity ; and some of his versions and commentaries, particularly those on the Georgics and Bucolics of Virgil, though now well-nigh forgotten, were important contributions to the scholarship of his time.

Barbariccia seems to be the most important devil after Malacoda as he becomes the " provost " of nine other devils, when Malacoda commands them to escort Dante and Virgil, which can be read out of the following text ( the speaker is Malacoda ):

The 1987 film Project X, starring Matthew Broderick, had a chimpanzee, named Virgil, use of signs as an important part of the plot.

Since 1951, the palace has housed the National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca, which includes, in its Virgil Cioflec collection the works of arts of many important Romanian artists, such as Nicolae Grigorescu, Ştefan Luchian, Dimitrie Paciurea, Theodor Pallady, Camil Ressu and others.

In Latin, the most important are those of Servius on Virgil, of Acro and Porphyrio on Horace, and of Donatus on Terence.

Virgil confesses that he and Amy are drifting apart, but insists that Amy is the most important thing in his life.