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proper noun
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Virgil (the writer).
Carefully walking along a path skirting the burning sand, Vergil and his ward come to a spot where a rivulet, boiling and red, issues from the wood. It is the Phlegeton, the third of the infernal rivers.
1904, Adolphus T[homas] Ennis, chapter XIV, in Introduction to Dante’s Inferno, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, →OCLC, page 50 - A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Virgil.
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