Virgil

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Virgil (spelled Vergil by some asinine Latin purists) was a Roman poet. Essentially a whore for money and power, his extensive epic poem, the Aeneid, is essentially a long paean to Octavian, later Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. For this feat of spectacular ass-kissing, Virgil's name now spangles the front of Butler Library.