Bucolics
Americannoun
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The short interval between the death of Catullus and the appearance of the Bucolics of Virgil marks the beginning of a new era in literature and in history: Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
The true edition is known by having at plate 1, before the Bucolics, the following Latin passage printed in red ink.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
I took with me a flute, a copy of the Bucolics of Virgil, and numerous linen garments.
From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature by Various
Fleming has translated Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics "not in foolish rhyme, the nice observance whereof many times darkeneth, corrupteth, perverteth, and falsifieth both the sense and the signification, but with due proportion and measure."
From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross
Petrarch, in imitation of Virgil, had written Latin Bucolics, as he had written a Latin Epic, his Africa.
From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
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