Bucolics

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[byoo-kol-iks] / byuˈkɒl ɪks /

noun

1. Eclogues.

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Example Sentences

The Eclogues, sometimes called also Bucolica or Bucolics, are ten short pastoral poems.

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann

The ten short poems called Bucolics, or Eclogues, were the earliest works of Virgil, and probably all written between B.C.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

There is no evidence in the Bucolics that Virgil ever had any practical knowledge of agriculture before he undertook to write the Georgics.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax

Retiring during this year for some time to Vaucluse, Petrarch composed an eclogue in honour of the Roman revolution, the fifth in his Bucolics.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

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.