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.

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.

He served as a capsule communicator, along with Virgil " Gus " Grissom and Eugene Cernan, for the Gemini 4 mission, in which Edward H. White II made his space walk.

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.

* Finch and other band members made cameo appearances in Talking Heads leader David Byrne's 1986 movie True Stories, set in fictional Virgil, Texas.

After the attempted murder of Virgil, Wyatt requested and was made Deputy U. S. Marshal by U. S. Marshall Crawley Dake on December 29, 1881.

" Weston LaBarre made the observation that Frazer was " the last of the scholastics ", and wrote The Golden Bough " as an extended footnote to a line in Virgil he felt he did not understand.

Mr Hewitt taught him with his own boys, taking him through Julius Caesar, Terence, Ovid and Virgil ; he had already made great progress in mathematics.

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.

Dryden himself imitated the Aeneid in " MacFlecknoe " to describe the apotheosis of a dull poet, but the imitation made fun of the poet, and not of Virgil.

Through his friendship with Wyatt and the other Earp brothers, especially Morgan and Virgil, Holliday made his way to the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in September 1880.

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

The publication ( 1769 ) of his translation of the Georgics of Virgil made him famous.

His best-known works are his novels about Vergil Magus, the magician that medieval legend made out of the Roman poet Virgil ; the Peregrine novels, a comic view of Europe shortly after the fall of Rome ; the Jack Limekiller stories about a Canadian living in an imaginary Central American country modelled after Belize during the 1960s, and the stories of Dr. Eszterhazy, a sort of even more erudite Sherlock Holmesian figure living in the mythical Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania, the waning fourth-largest empire in Europe.

Although his brother Virgil had far more experience as a sheriff, constable, and marshal, Wyatt, who outlived Virgil, and was made famous by a largely fictionalized biography by Stuart Lake, has been the subject of and model for a large number of films, TV shows, biographies and works of fiction.

Corral, in which Billy Clanton ( Church ), Frank McLaury ( Burke ), and Tom McLaury are killed, Virgil and Morgan are wounded, and the allegiance of county sheriff Johnny Behan ( Tenney ) to the Cowboys is made clear.

As city marshal, Virgil made the decision to disarm the Cowboys in Tombstone and requested Wyatt's assistance.

Its most distinguished representative was Jean de Vales, of Montech, who made excellent translations from Virgil and Persius, and wrote a brilliant burlesque of the former in the manner of Scarron ( Virgile deguisat, 1648 ; only four books published ).

He made his pay-per-view debut at Survivor Series, easily defeating the much smaller Virgil with his huge weight advantage.

Virgil Earp and L. G. Shaw, Byrne's project superintendents, designed forms with a cycloid shape that were made from hinged plywood and lined with an oily coating so they could be reused to pour concrete for multiple sections of the vaults, helping to ensure consistency.

Offers were being made for Hill to fight in Las Vegas and other cities, but Virgil chose the place of his ' roots ' and ' hometown fans ' to be the place of the majority of his defenses.

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 ).

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.

Today, the modern Latin poets who use the dactylic hexameter are generally as faithful to Virgil as Rome's Silver Age poets.

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.

* December 28 – Virgil Earp is ambushed in Tombstone and loses the use of his left arm.

Virgil makes use of the symbolism of the Augustan regime, and some scholars see strong associations between Augustus and Aeneas, the one as founder and the other as re-founder of Rome.

Spicer did not condone all of the Earps ' actions and criticized Virgil Earp's use of Wyatt and Holliday as deputies, but he concluded that no laws were broken.

While variants turn up in other places ( for example a poem often ascribed to Virgil called Moretum contains the phrase E Pluribus Unus ), this is the oldest known use of the exact phrase.

The eroticism of Virgil's second eclogue, Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin (" The shepherd Corydon burned with passion for pretty Alexis ") is entirely homosexual, although the use of that term is anachronistic due to a lack of any idea of sexual identity in the times in which Virgil was writing.

In the Quran Oath Controversy of the 110th United States Congress, Rep. Virgil Goode ( R-VA ) issued a letter to his constituents stating his view that the decision of Representative-elect Keith Ellison ( D-MN ) to use the Quran in his swearing-in ceremony is a threat to " the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America ...

Despite the use of only one arm, Virgil was hired by the Southern Pacific Railroad to guard its tracks in Colton's famous " battle of the crossing ".

" Countless others who were also exposed gained a wide variety of mutations and abilities, and Static spends much of his time dealing with these " Bang Babies ", many of whom use their abilities in selfish, harmful, and even criminal ways. Virgil is named after the first African-American to go to law school ( who was himself named for the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid ).

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

Virgil has also begun using a collapsible bo-staff in conjunction with his powers for use in close-ranged fighting.

The film begins with graduate student Teri MacDonald ( Helen Hunt ) and her work training a chimpanzee named Virgil to use American Sign Language.

Prominent drummers who used or use the traditional grip include Buddy Rich, Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones, Levon Helm of The Band, Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, Jason Costa of All That Remains, Brian Chase of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Nick Pierce, formerly of The Faceless and Culling the Weak, Bob Siebenberg of Supertramp, Stewart Copeland of The Police, Mel Taylor of The Ventures, and drum virtuosi Vinnie Colaiuta, Dave Weckl, Steve Gadd, Mark Zonder of Fates Warning, Thomas Lang, Steve Smith of Journey & Vital Information, Todd Sucherman of Styx, and Virgil Donati.

In 1945 Vito narrowly survives an assassination attempt when he refuses the request of Virgil Sollozzo to invest in a heroin operation and use his political contacts for the operation's protection.

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.

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 was told by several citizens that the McLaurys and the Clantons had gathered on Fremont Street and were armed.

Along with Thule, Hyperborea was one of several terrae incognitae to the Greeks and Romans, where Pliny, Pindar and Herodotus, as well as Virgil and Cicero, reported that people lived to the age of one thousand and enjoyed lives of complete happiness.

Newton and Virgil fought several battles in the east and later returned.

On October 26, 1881, Virgil learned that several Cowboys who had been threatening the Earps for several months were in town and armed in violation of the ordinance.

In 1966 he published The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem, which, with his later diaries, has brought him some notoriety, as he is honest about his and others ' sexuality, describing his relationships with Leonard Bernstein, Noël Coward, Samuel Barber, and Virgil Thomson, and outing several others ( Aldrich and Wotherspoon, eds., 2001 ).

* Virgil Thomson-quoted in several movements of his score for The Plow that Broke the Plains ( 1936 ).

Virgil Earp was told by several citizens that the McLaurys and the Clantons had gathered on Fremont Street and were armed.

Hurricanes Lester, Virgil, Winifred, and Orlene also made landfall and killed several people, but were significantly less destructive.

To understand Virgil's reaction, Amy seeks out Jennie, who reveals that their father left the family years ago after putting Virgil through several kinds of treatment in an unsuccessful attempt to restore his sight.