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Vir⋅gil

  [vur-juhl]
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–noun
1. Vergil.
2. a male given name.

Ver⋅gil

  [vur-jil]
–noun
1. (Publius Vergilius Maro), 70–19 b.c., Roman poet: author of The Aeneid.
2. a male given name.
Also, Virgil.
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Vir·gil also Ver·gil   (vûr'jəl)   
Roman poet. His greatest work is the epic poem Aeneid, which tells of the wanderings of Aeneas after the sack of Troy.
Vir·gil'i·an (vûr-jĭl'ē-ən, -jĭl'yən) adj.
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Virgil

An ancient Roman poet; the author of the Aeneid, one of the great epics of Western literature.

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