Eclogues
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The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.
The opening lines of the Eclogues in the 5th-century Vergilius Romanus
Incipit page of Eclogue 1 in a 1482 Italian translation of Bucolics
Eclogue
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An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. The term is also used for a musical genre thought of as evoking a pastoral scene
Eclogues
…even though erotic turbulence disturbs the "idyllic" landscapes of Theocritus. Virgil's book contains ten pieces, each called not an idyll but an eclogue, from the Greek ἐκλογή ('selection', 'extract'). The poems are populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing…
The beginning of Virgil's Eclogues, 15th century manuscript, Vatican Library