Eclogues

[ ek-lawgz, -logz ]

noun

1. a collection of pastoral poems (42–37 b.c.) by Vergil.

Example Sentences

But at the end of the volume appear the "Specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect," consisting of three songs and two eclogues.

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And in the Eclogues they marvelled primarily at the revelation of temperament which Horace denotes by the word molle.

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Theocritus and Virgil, in their eclogues, boast of the shades and of the cooling freshness of the fountains.

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The Shepheard's Calendar was a pastoral in twelve eclogues—one for each month in the year.

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His compositions in Latin are—Africa, an epic poem; his Bucolics, containing twelve eclogues; and three books of epistles.

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