Bucolics

It had been preceded by ten brief poems called Bucolics (_Bucolica_, Greek, _boukolos_, a cowherd), noteworthy for their smooth versification and many natural touches, though they have only the form and coloring of the true pastoral poem.

The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

He wrote the so-called Bucolics in the Dorian dialect.

Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

The ten short poems called Bucolics, or Eclogues, were the earliest works of Virgil, and probably all written between B.C.

A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853

Young gentlemen of all ages from nine to fifteen were to be found there, who expended such part of their energies as was devoted to Latin and Greek upon a book of Livy, the "Bucolics" of Virgil, and the "Hecuba" of Euripides, which were ground out in small daily portions.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

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.

The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875

From the sixth of Virgil's Eclugues or Bucolics in which Silenus, the close companion of Bacchus is discovered by Chromis and Mnasylus with Aegle, the fairest of the Naids joining in the fun of making him give them a song.

Archive 2008-02-01 Hermes 2008

I saw Maurice Manning read a few of the poems from his new book Bucolics about a year ago, and I've been waiting to read them on my own ever since.

National Poetry Month Recommendation: Maurice Manning 2007

They also keep capons, fruit, and other things, and for all these matters there is a book which they call the Bucolics.

The City of the Sun 2002

On approaching the farm buildings, Randal was seized with the terror of an impostor; for, despite all the theoretical learning on Bucolics and

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

The greater part of the Bucolics of Virgil may be regarded as poems of a peculiar nature, into which the author has happily transfused, in elegant versification, the native manners and ideas, without any mixture of the rusticity of pastoral life.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus