Bucolics

American  

[byoo-kol-iks] / byuˈkɒl ɪks /

noun

1. Eclogues.

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Example Sentences

Retiring during this year for some time to Vaucluse, Petrarch composed an eclogue in honour of the Roman revolution, the fifth in his Bucolics.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Bucolics are very sweet, but their writers do not believe in them.

From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Titcomb, Timothy

In 1481 appeared an Italian translation of the Bucolics of Vergil from the pen of Bernardo Pulci.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

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

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