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The meaning of the word "Eclogue" in English


Eclogue n. : A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

Example:
what is the significance of "Sithonian snows" and "Hubris' stream" from Virgils tenth Eclogue?

Taxonomy
eclogues, Eclogue II, Town Eclogues, Virgil, bucolics, ecloga, free encyclopedia, poetry, Latin poets, poems, English poet, eclogae, Virgilian, movements, Oxford University Press, Theocritus, short poems, Spanish poet.

Defination from the web:
eclogue, from Old French, from Latin ecloga. ... The first English language eclogues were written by Alexander Barclay, in 1514. ... The Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega also wrote eclogues in the Virgilian style. ... 

synonyms
  (noun) bucolic
  (noun) idyll
  (noun) pastoral


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