Bucolics
Americannoun
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It is not an Italy in Theocritean colors, like the Italy of Virgil's Bucolics, but the Italy of Horace's own time, the Italy of his own birth and experience, and the Italy of today.
From Horace and His Influence by Showerman, Grant
They also keep capons, fruit and other things, and for all these matters there is a book which they call the Bucolics.
From Ideal Commonwealths by More, Thomas, Sir, Saint
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)
A more bucolic personage Bucolics never sang; And when he took that post and wage, All round his praises rang.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
In the seven eclogues of Calpurnius may be found a larger assortment of vegetables, of agricultural implements and operations, than in the Bucolics of Vergil, but there is little poetry, pastoral or otherwise.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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