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Definition of Bucolics

Bucolic
Bucolic Bu*col"ic, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.
Bucolic
Bucolic Bu*col"ic, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd, herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive: cf. F. bucolique. See Cow the animal.] Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

Meaning of Bucolics from wikipedia

- also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. Taking as his generic model the Gr**** bucolic poetry of Theocritus...
- genre is usually referred to as a pastorale. The genre is also known as bucolic, from the Gr**** βουκολικόν, from βουκόλος, meaning a cowherd. Pastoral...
- Bucolics is a sequence of poems by W. H. Auden written in 1952 and 1953. The seven poems in the sequence are: "Winds", "Woods, "Mountains", "Lakes", "Islands"...
- the country and those of the latter in a town. The most famous of the Bucolics are 1, 6, 7 and 11. In "Idyll 1" Thyrsis sings to a goatherd about how...
- Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling...
- composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected...
- Online version at the ****us Digital Library. Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin...
- text available at the ****us Digital Library. Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin...
- Online version at the ****us Digital Library. Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin...
- Hosted at Google Books. Accessed 30 May 2014. Rhoades, James (trans.). Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. Ginn & Co. (Boston), 1900. Hosted at MIT...