Virgil

A 3rd-century Roman [[Virgil Mosaic|mosaic of Virgil]] seated between [[Clio]] and [[Melpomene]] (from [[Hadrumetum]] [Sousse], Tunisia) Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the ''Eclogues'' (or ''Bucolics''), the ''Georgics'', and the epic ''Aeneid''. A number of minor poems, collected in the ''Appendix Vergiliana'', were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars generally regard these works as spurious, with the possible exception of a few short pieces.

Already acclaimed in his own lifetime as a classic author, Virgil rapidly replaced Ennius and other earlier authors as a standard school text, and stood as the most popular Latin poet through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity, exerting inestimable influence on all subsequent Western literature. Geoffrey Chaucer assigned Virgil a uniquely prominent position among all the celebrities of human history in ''The House of Fame'' (1374–85), describing him as standing ''on a pilere / that was of tinned yren clere'' ("on a pillar that was of bright tin-plated iron"), and in the ''Divine Comedy'', in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through Hell and Purgatory, Dante pays tribute to Virgil with the words (''Inf.'' I.86–7) ("thou art alone the one from whom I took the beautiful style that has done honour to me"). In the 20th Century, T. S. Eliot famously began a lecture on the subject "What Is a Classic?" by asserting as self-evidently true that "whatever the definition we arrive at, it cannot be one which excludes Virgil – we may say confidently that it must be one which will expressly reckon with him." Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. 101
    Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott, 1900.
    2 vols. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Coblentz, Virgil, 1862-...”
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  2. 102
    Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott company [c1908]
    xvi, 13-749 p. incl. illus., tables, diagrs. 24 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Coblentz, Virgil, 1862-...”
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  3. 103
    by Homer
    Published 1610
    Gedruck zu Augspurg : Durch Christoff Mangen, in Verlegung Eliæ Willers, 1610.
    4 p. l., 354, [6], 267, [1] p. : port. ; 34 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  4. 104
    by Delille, Jacques, 1738-1813
    Published 1859
    Paris, Firmin Didot frères, fils et Cie, 1859.
    2 p.l., viii, 914 p. front. (port.) 20 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  5. 105
    Philadelphia London, J. B. Lippincott company [c1918]
    765 p. 24 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Coblentz, Virgil, 1862-...”
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  6. 106
    Published 1846
    Hartford : New York : J. H. Mather ; Pratt, Woodford, c1846.
    1 score (379, [4] p.) ; 16 x 25 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Taylor, Virgil Corydon, 1817-1891...”
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  7. 107
    by Homer
    Published 1630
    Gedruck zu Franckfurt am Mayn : Iin Verlegung Gottfried Tampachs, 1630.
    [8], 584 p., 4 l., 463 [i.e. 443]p. : 21x18 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  8. 108
    Published 2009
    Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, c2009.
    3 v. ; 28 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Varvel, Virgil E....”
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  9. 109
    by Van Neste, Wilbur Lane
    Published 1972
    Washington, National Archives, 1972.
    viii, 66 p. 27 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Baugh, Virgil E....”
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  10. 110
    Paris : Chez Madame Huzard, 1824.
    [4] xxiv, 159 p., 3 leaves of colored plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  11. 111
    New York : Silver, Burdett, c1900.
    vi, 88 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., music, plans.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  12. 112
    by Yvelin, Nicolas fl. 1587
    Published 1587
    Parisiis [Paris] : Ex typographia Dionysij à Prato, 1587.
    28 p. ; 21 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  13. 113
    by Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654
    Published 1634
    Londini : Per Iohannem Legatum pro Richardo Thralo, apud quem vaeneunt in vico vocato Cheap-side, 1634.
    [6], 51 (i.e. 61), [11] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  14. 114
    New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American Book Co. [c1911]
    viii, 303 p. illus., diagrs. 19 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Snyder, Virgil, 1869-1950...”
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