Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

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.

In 2010, former Republican Representative Virgil Goode ( VA-5 ), later the 2012 nominee for president, accepted an appointment to the National Executive Committee of the Constitution Party.

According to the commentators, Virgil received his first education when he was five years old and he later went to Cremona, Milan, and finally Rome to study rhetoric, medicine, and astronomy, which he soon abandoned for philosophy.

Virgil is credited in the Eclogues with establishing Arcadia as a poetic ideal that still resonates in Western literature and visual arts and setting the stage for the development of Latin pastoral by Calpurnius Siculus, Nemesianus, and later writers.

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.

In handling this theme, Virgil follows in the didactic ( instructive ) tradition of the Greek poet Hesiod's Works and Days and several works of the later Hellenistic poets.

With the Georgics Virgil is again credited with laying the foundations for later didactic poetry.

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.

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

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.

City Marshal Virgil Earp arrived a few minutes later and threatened to arrest both Holliday and Clanton if they did not stop arguing.

Ike Clanton testified later he saw Virgil take his six-shooter out of his lap and stick it in his pants when the game ended.

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

Virgil testified later that Behan told them, " For God's sake, don't go down there or they will murder you!

By Williams ' account, Behan told Virgil Earp immediately after the gunfight a story that corroborated the Nugget report, before changing to the story Behan later told at the coroner's inquest.

Clanton was later accused, along with his brother Phin Clanton and friend Pony Diehl, of attempting to kill Virgil Earp.

Three months later on the evening of December 28, 1881 Virgil Earp was ambushed and seriously wounded on the streets of Tombstone by hidden assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building.

When Burke arrived for his first recording session at the Atlantic Records studio at 1841 Broadway, Manhattan, New York on 13 December 1960, he was given four songs, including his first Atlantic release, " Keep the Magic Working ", which was a flop, and " Just Out Of Reach ( Of My Two Empty Arms )", a cover of a country song written and recorded by Virgil " Pappy " Stewart, that had been a minor hit for Faron Young in 1953 (# 10 C & W ), and later for Patsy Cline.

This advertising premise was substantiated by Virgil Exner's designs, notably the 1947 Studebaker Starlight coupé, which introduced innovative styling features that influenced later cars, including the flatback " trunk " instead of the tapered look of the time, and a wrap-around rear window.

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.

However, it has been noted that later poets like Ennius ( by extension Virgil, who follows him in both time and technique ) preserve something of the Saturnian aesthetic in hexameter verse.

The famous poet Virgil, who went to school in Cremona, had to forfeit his ancestral farm (" too close to wretched Cremona "), but later regained it.

The ancients referred to individual pieces in Virgil's Bucolica as eclogae, and the term was used by later Latin poets to refer to their own pastoral poetry, often in imitation of Virgil.

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.

It was an allusion to the Roman poet Virgil towards the end of the speech, which has been remembered and gave the speech its common title:

Celebrated organist Virgil Fox gave his last solo concert in the building in 1980.

She gave the world premiere of Virgil Thomson's Flute Concerto, as well as five performances with Italian orchestras of a concerto by Franco Mannino for flute, trombone obbligato and orchestra.

Keats ' generation was familiar enough with the polished literary translations of John Dryden and Alexander Pope, which gave Homer an urbane gloss similar to Virgil, but expressed in blank verse or heroic couplets.

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

The animator of this cartoon, Virgil Ross, gave his first-person account of the creation of the character's name and personality in an interview published in Animato!

It is possible that the last books have been lost over time, though it is also likely that Fulgentius simply lost interest in the work and gave it a hurried anticlimactic finish, as he did with other works such as the Content of Virgil.

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.

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.

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.

Corral ), the Earp brothers ( Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil and James ) are driving cattle to California when they cross the Clanton family led by the " Old Man ".

The name Iulus was popularised by Virgil in the Aeneid: replacing the Greek name Ascanius with Iulus linked the Julian family of Rome to earlier mythology.

One of the most dramatic such readings brought the poet Virgil to the attention of the imperial family, when Virgil read from his work-in-progress the Aeneid, and flattered the imperial family by his portrayal of Aeneas, whom the Julii Caesares believed to be their direct patrilineal ancestor.

Other episode plots in this season included: a prominent citizen being murdered due to sexual abuse in his family ; Virgil ’ s ex-partner and Althea ’ s ex-lover coming back to Sparta and being exposed as a murderer ; Chief Gillespie having to confront the legacy of his own bigoted past when he's duty-bound to arrest a close, lifelong friend — who is also the sheriff of the neighboring county — for committing a racially-motivated murder in his jail ; Bubba getting caught up in a love triangle ; Althea ’ s niece visiting from Philadelphia ; Virgil and Althea going to an all-White church ; Joanne being stalked by a murderous ex-con, which eventually exposes that she had been a prostitute out of necessity in a different city, long ago ; the arrest of councilwoman White ’ s son ; Chief Gillespie witnessing, and being deeply affected by, an execution ; a plant strike that leads to murder ; Bubba being accused of rape ; and, a manhunt for a drunk driver who killed three of Sparta's most popular high school cheerleaders, and crippled a fourth.

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.

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

Besides Borgnine, the only actors from the dramatic pilot who made it to the series were Gary Vinson as Quartermaster George " Christy " Christopher, who ends up becoming a devoted family man, Edson Stroll as Gunner's Mate Virgil Edwards, the handsome lover boy of the crew, and John Wright as Radioman Willy Moss, a good-natured Southerner who operates the crew's still ( a carryover from the original dramatic pilot ).

For the most part, Virgil keeps his secret from his family, but his friend, Frieda Goren, learns his identity when he attempts to protect her from becoming a prize in a small skirmish between gangs.

Virgil finally decides to see his family again after learning that a deadly virus has been infecting citizens of Dakota, including Sharon.

After returning home, Virgil reunites with his family as well as Frieda, and learns that his girlfriend Madison has left him during his absence.

After this, Virgil reconciles with Frieda and tells her that he has tricked his family into believing that he has taken part in a lengthy quantum physics fellowship, thus giving him an excuse to live in San Francisco with the rest of the Titans.

Following the reality-warping events of the 2011 " Flashpoint " storyline, Virgil and his family leave Dakota for New York after an unspecified incident.

In " Static in Africa ," it is revealed ( or at least hinted at ) that Virgil and his family are all of Ghanaian ancestry ( although no relatives are mentioned ).

Forced by family needs to leave school at the age of sixteen and get a job in a bank, he nevertheless continued to read voraciously, in particular the great classic works of literature including the Bible, Homer's Iliad, the works of Virgil, and the Tragiques of Agrippa d ' Aubigné.

Virgil Warden Finlay was born and raised in Rochester, New York ; his father, woodworker Warden Hugh Finlay, died at age 40 in the midst of the Great Depression, leaving his family ( widow Ruth and two children, Jean and Virgil ) in straitened circumstances.