Delille, Jacques, a French poet, born at Aigues Perse, in Auvergne; translator of the “Georgics” of Virgil into verse, afterwards the “Æneid” and “Paradise Lost,” besides producing also certain didactic and descriptive works; was a good versifier, but properly no poet, and much overrated; died blind (1738‒1813).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Delilah * Delitzsch, Franz