The monthly cost of ADC to more than 100,000 recipients in the county is 4.4 million dollars, said C. Virgil Martin, president of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., committee chairman.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This branch is the literary source of the " golden bough " in the Aeneid by Virgil.

A similar effect is found in VIII. 452, where Virgil describes how the blacksmith sons of Vulcan " take up their arms with great strength one to another " in forging Aeneas ' shield:

Also notable is the tendency among late grammarians to thoroughly dissect the hexameters of Virgil and earlier poets.

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.

In it, he is seen by Dante and his guide Virgil being punished in Hell's Eighth Circle ( Bolgia 1 ) by being driven to march through the circle for all eternity while being whipped by devils.

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.

In the Aeneid, Virgil gives Laocoön the famous line Equo ne credite, Teucri / Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, or " Do not trust the Horse, Trojans / Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts.

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

The Minotaur is also the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante come across within the walls of Dis ( the fallen angels, Erinyes, and the unseen Medusa were located on the city's defensive ramparts in Canto IX ).

This device is also used by later authors of literary epics, such as Virgil in the Aeneid, Luís de Camões in Os Lusíadas and Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock.

The logical outcome of this tendency is the historical novel with Pytheas as the main character and the celebration of Pytheas in poetry beginning as far back as Virgil.

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

* Virgil Hodge is a female sprinter specialising in the 200 metres event.

The narrator is met by the writer George MacDonald, whom he hails as his mentor, just as Dante did when encountering Virgil in the Divine Comedy ; and MacDonald becomes the narrator's guide in his journey, just as Virgil became Dante's.

The Constitution Party's 2012 presidential nominee is Virgil Goode.

Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets.

The biographical tradition asserts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues ( or Bucolics ) in 42 BC and it is thought that the collection was published around 39 – 38 BC, although this is controversial.

Virgil said later said that Frank had asked him if he had posted the handbills.

When Virgil said he had not, Frank said if Virgil had printed the handbills it was Frank's intention to kill Virgil.

He said Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan offered him his rifle and to fight him right there in the courthouse, which Ike declined.

Wyatt said in his deposition afterward that he had been temporarily acting as city marshal for Virgil the week before while Virgil was in Tucson for the Pete Spence and Frank Stilwell trial.

Wyatt said that he still considered himself a deputy city marshal, which Virgil later confirmed.

Several members of the citizen's vigilance committee offered to support him with arms, but Virgil said no.

When Behan said he had disarmed them, Virgil attempted to avoid a fight.

Virgil said Tom followed the horse's movement, hiding behind it, and fired once, if not twice, over the horse's back.

Virgil said one of the first shots was Billy Clanton's.

He said the evidence indicated that the Earps and Holliday acted within the law and that Holliday and Wyatt had been deputized temporarily by Virgil.

" 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.

( A reference in Virgil seems to refer to the Veneti as Liburnians, namely that the " innermost realm of the Liburnians " must have been the goal at which Antenor is said to have arrived.

When still hardly fifteen he was already the author of numerous metrical translations from Ovid, Horace and Virgil, as well as of original lyrics, dramas, and an epic of four thousand lines on the origin of the Swiss confederations, writings which he is said on one occasion to have rescued from a fire at the risk of his life, only, however, to burn them a little later ( 1729 ) with his own hand.

What was said of Virgil, that he threw even the dung about the ground with an air of dignity, may be applied to Titian ; whatever he touched, however naturally mean, and habitually familiar, by a kind of magic he invested with grandeur and importance.

Whether they were intentional or not, if we believe Suetonius, these references did not seem to trouble Octavian, to whom Virgil is said to have recited the Georgics in 29 BC.

It is said Gertrude Stein became an admirer of Satie hearing Virgil Thomson perform the Socrate music on his piano.

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.

Nonetheless, epics have been written down at least since the works of Virgil, Dante Alighieri, and John Milton.

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.

It has fallen to the lot of no other patron of literature to have his name associated with works of such lasting interest as the Georgics of Virgil, the first three books of Horace's Odes, and the first book of his Epistles.

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 '.

Virgil seems to have suffered bad health throughout his life and in some ways lived the life of an invalid.

Virgil seems to have made connections with many of the other leading literary figures of the time, including Horace, in whose poetry he is often mentioned, and Varius Rufus, who later helped finish the Aeneid.

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.

A skilled writer and orator, Coluccio drew heavily upon the classical tradition and developed a powerful prose style based on the Latin of Virgil and Cicero: " I have always believed ," Salutati wrote " I must imitate antiquity not simply to reproduce it, but in order to produce something new " In this sense his own view of humanism was broader-based than the antiquarianism of the generation of humanists he fostered.

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.

Hesiod described one group of cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another, though other accounts have also been written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil.

Several of Stein's writings have been set to music by composers, including Virgil Thomson's operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All, and James Tenney's setting of Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose as a canon dedicated to Philip Corner, beginning with " a " on an upbeat and continuing so that each repetition shuffles the words, e. g. " a / rose is a rose / is a rose is / a rose is a / rose.

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.

He warned Virgil, " If you ever again follow us as close as you did, then you will have to fight anyway.

Many critics have noted the strong influence of Virgil ’ s first century Roman epic poem, the Aeneid, on Shakespeare ’ s Antony and Cleopatra.

They are not all based on Greek tragedies, they have a five act form and differ in many respects from extant Attic drama, and whilst the influence of Euripides on some of these works is considerable, so is the influence of Virgil and Ovid.

Both films have notable scores by Virgil Thomson that are still heard as concert suites.

His character seems to have been chosen by Virgil treating the Persian name Achaemenes as Greek and extracting a meaning " he who waits with affliction ".

In general, scholars have remarked on the markedly different tone of the Achilleid in comparison with the Thebaid, equating it more to the style of Ovid than Virgil.

Virgil's listeners would have related this scene to the same Great Altar of Hercules in the Forum Boarium of their own day, one detail among many in the Aeneid that Virgil used to link the heroic past of myth with the Age of Augustus.