eclogue

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Petrarch vented his indignation on this occasion in his seventh eclogue, which is a satire upon the Pontiff and his cardinals, the interlocutors being Micione, or Clement himself, and Epi, or the city of Avignon.

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  1. noun A pastoral poem, usually in the form of a dialogue between shepherds.

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  • If you cannot find the book I will get Mr. Dodsley to send it you Footnote 1: 'Petrarch, finding nothing in the word eclogue of rural meaning, supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own pastorals aeglogues, by which he meant to express the talk of goatherds, though it will mean only the talk of goats. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • I have contrived to manufacture one eclogue, and that is all; but the exercise of riding has jostled a good many ideas into my brain, and I have plans enough for long leisure. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • The two books are both made up of two volumes, with a prologue, an epilogue, and an "eclogue" in between each volume. —  Notes From The Geek Show
  • After a short eclogue, a jongleur dressed as a woman danced the moresca to the accompaniment of tamborines, and Cćsar also took part in it, and was recognized in spite of his disguise. —  Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
  • The second eclogue is far more realistic, and indeed resembles the English and French pastoral scenes. —  Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
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  1. Middle English eclog, from Latin ecloga, from Greek eklogē, selection, from eklegein, to select; see eclectic.

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  1. Early modern English also eclog, and eglogue, æglogue; = French eglogue, eclogue, now églogue, éclogue = Spanish ecloga = Portuguese egloga = Italian egloga, ecloga = German ekloge = Danish Swedish eklog, from Latin ecloga, from Greek ἐκλογή, a selection, especially of poems, “elegant extracts” (cf. ἐκλογος, picked out), from ἐκλέγειν, pick out, select, from ἐκ, out, + λέγειν, pick, choose; cf. eclectic. The term came to be applied especially to a collection of pastoral poems (with special ref. to Virgil's pastoral poems (Bucolica), which were published under the title of Eclogæ, ‘selections’), whence the false spellings eglogue, æglogue (French églogue, etc.), in an endeavor to bring in the pastoral associations of Greek αῐξ (αἰγ-), a goat.
 

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