Bucolic, a term derived from the Greek, 'belonging to herdsmen,' nearly equal to Pastoral, from Latin. It is specially used of a kind of Pastoral Poetry (q.v.). The great bucolic poets were Theocritus, Bion, Moschus; and Virgil's Eclogues are sometimes called Bucolica.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 514
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