“Through his continued application of georgic strategies, he is returned to a truly Virgilian sense of the extreme volatility of the labor of imperial regeneration.”

“It must be admitted, however, that the poet's uncouth diction is anything but Virgilian.”

“The four eclogues are in the Virgilian tradition and are also influenced by Calpurnius.”

“But I stand by my preference, not least because Renly and Loras' plot has a good classical, specifically Vergilian, pedigree.”

“Nor is it for nothing that the fashion of Vergilian quotation so long dominated our parliamentary eloquence.”

“And it suddenly impressed me as something poignant, as something with the Vergilian touch of tears in it.”