Bucolics
Americannoun
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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)
Vergil, as the author of the Bucolics and the Aeneid, is already known to the student.
From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.
It is quite in the way of one of Virgil's Amœbœan Bucolics.
From Buzz a Buzz or The Bees by Busch, Wilhelm
When Virgil composed his immortal "Bucolics," and Varro indited his profound Essays on Agriculture, the inhabitants of the British Islands were almost completely ignorant of the art of cultivating the soil.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir
Bucolics are very sweet, but their writers do not believe in them.
From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Titcomb, Timothy
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