| Virgil is accepted to the prestigious institute, where he's received coolly by the upperclassmen. |
| He was one of the Roman humanists who took a delight in conversing in the language of Horace and Virgil, of Cicero and Martial for its own sake. |
| The crowd assumed the police must be firing blanks at them, until a.38 caliber bullet ripped through Virgil Harrison's right forearm. |
| Virgil was an epic poet in the Homeric tradition, with his Aeneid telling the story of a survivor from Troy. |
| He also published occasional verses, satires, and a free translation from Virgil. |
| In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus. |
