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Eclogue

ecloga, ἐκλογή). A selected piece of writing. Properly a poem taken out of a larger collection, and so applied, at the time of the Roman Empire, to a short poem, as an idyl or satire. The term was especially applied to the pastoral poems of Vergil and Calpurnius Siculus. See Bucolica.

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