Bucolics
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If I mistake not, he is the same person as Gallus the poet, whose loss Virgil deplores at the end of his Bucolics, celebrating his memory in sweet verses.
From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Charles Duke Yonge
Petrarch, in imitation of Virgil, had written Latin Bucolics, as he had written a Latin Epic, his Africa.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
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 Flora Ross Amos
I employ this agricultural metaphor not in ignorance; for I have, out on these very prairies, read between corn-husking and the spring ploughing Virgil's Georgics and Bucolics, for which Varro's treatises furnished the foundations.
From Modern American Prose Selections by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees
Theocritus was no French sentimentalist; he would have protested against the tame elegancies of the Roman Bucolics; and the sospiri ardenti and miserelli aman of Guarini would have driven him mad.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various
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