was virgil a sorcerer?

Answer 1

Any magical legends and tall tales that circulated about Virgil only originated in the Middle Ages. There is no evidence that these were other than fanciful.

Dante, in his The Divine Comedy, did choose Virgil as his guide through Hell and Purgatory. But it was not because of any sorcerous skills that Dante is thought to have chosen Virgil.

Rather it was because in one of Virgil's Ecologues he prophecises a future 'golden age', which will be heralded in by the birth of a boy. While the identity of the child in question is uncertain, later Christians read this as a Messianic prophecy.
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Answer 2

Virgil was a Latin poet. He was not considered to have any mystical qualities until the Middle Ages when his works were Christianised and he was viewed as a predictor of the coming of Christ. The Aeneid was used as a tool of divination (bibliomancy) by Middle Age seekers of wisdom in much the same way that they used the Bible. You could look at it as their attempt to resolve his genius with his pagan ancestry. I think Virgil was an insightful man and as a pagan he may have accepted and communicated mystical concepts more naturally than modern society but as a sorcerer is a magic user, I doubt he could legitimately be labelled as such.

Answer 3

Virgil was a Roman writer/poet. Very famous.

Answer 4

He was Roman poet. Lived in ancient times. The most famous work - Aeneid

Answer 5

Perhaps in a different sense of the word... he was an enigmatic mystic...