Meaning of Virgil | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
   UK, archaic
2. Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
3. A male given name from Latin.
   US, mainly
4. A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
5. A place in the United States:
6. A township and village therein, in Kane County, Illinois.
7. A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
8. A town and census-designated place therein, in Cortland County, New York.
9. A small town in Beadle County, South Dakota.
10. An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.

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Examples

“A wedding dance⟳ at the Avon Ballroom on July 22nd for Mary Paterek and Virgil Loucks (imagine⟳, a youth named Virgil, he must be the youngest Virgil in Minnesota, maybe the last⟳ of the Virgil line).”

“There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make⟳ the sentence very light⟳ and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come⟳,—parenthesis,—plain point⟳,—interrogative... it is a slender stroke leaning forward⟳, betokening a little short rest⟳, without any perfectness yet of sentence.”

“No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma.”

“Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point⟳ called come⟳, answering to our colon-point, a point⟳ called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close⟳ of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.”

“Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.”

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