Example sentences for: vergil

How can you use “vergil” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The fate of Pallas constitutes a major motif in Vergil's Aeneid .

  • The Romans provide more fodder for the Niceness Principle through Vergil, who wrote in his Eclogues , “Omnia vincit amor” `Love conquers all.

  • The image Vergil pursues is that of a commander forced to surrender, beaten by an all-powerful passion.

  • Take a normal, clear-eyed individual, Vergil implies, subject him to love, and it will transform him into a physical wreck who cannot sleep and cannot eat because of his obsession.

  • ' Generations of romantics (including the wife of Bath) have interpreted this to mean that love will triumph over war and poverty, even over strict parents and curfews, but this is a fuzzy reading of the military metaphor Vergil intended.


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