Bucolics
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These are remarkable rather as the only specimens for nearly three hundred years of a direct attempt to continue the manner of Virgil's Bucolics than for any substantive merit of their own.
From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)
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
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.
For even granting that he can exceed a second-rate Greek model, what shall we say when he attempts to imitate Theocritus in his Bucolics?
From Problems in Greek history by Mahaffy, John Pentland
This was the Fourth Eclogue of his Bucolics, called the Pollio.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
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