Brewer's: Virgilius

Bishop of Saleburg, an Irishman, whose native name was Feargil or Feargal. He was denounced as a heretic for asserting the existence of antipodes. Died 784.) (See Science.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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