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

A major critical issue in considering the Georgics is the assessment of tone ; Virgil seems to waver between optimism and pessimism, sparking a great deal of debate on the poem's intentions.

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.

A brief biographical note is found in Aelius Donatus's Life of Virgil, which seems to be derived from an earlier work by Suetonius.

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 ".

But, like Virgil, Horace and Propertius, he seems to have lost most of it in 41 BC amongst the confiscations of Mark Antony and Octavian.

( 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.

" He also seems to inspire Virgil ( Static ) about what it truly means to be a superhero.

Virgil makes a Britney Spears joke when it seems he is feeling ill ; Frieda snaps at Virgil in reply, much to his surprise.

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.

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 ):

As the Mighty One's bodyguard, Norman is usually serious, but unlike Virgil, he seems to enjoy Max's carefree ways.

The names in Justin are undoubtedly more correct than in Virgil ; for Servius remarks, that Virgil here, as in other cases, changed a foreign name into one more convenient to him, and that the real name of Sichaeus was Sicharbas, which seems to be identical with Acerbas.

Many were considered works of Virgil in antiquity, but it seems that they comprise a diverse collection of minor poems by various authors from the 1st century CE.

Fulgentius ’ treatment of Virgil as a sage seems to have been borrowed from the encyclopaedic work of Macrobius, the first to elevate the Roman poet to such an authoritative status.

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.

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.

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 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 is said to have recited Books 2, 4 and 6 to Augustus ; the mention of her son, Marcellus, in book 6 apparently caused Augustus ' sister Octavia to faint.

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.

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.

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 made use of several models in the composition of his epic ; Homer the preeminent classical epicist is everywhere present, but Virgil also makes especial use of the Latin poet Ennius and the Hellenistic poet Apollonius of Rhodes among the various other writers he alludes to.

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 ).