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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 896 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ECLOGUE , a See also:

short See also:pastoral See also:dialogue in See also:verse. The word is conjectured to be derived from the See also:Greek verb EKMyELY, to choose. An eclogue, perhaps, in its See also:primary signification was a selected piece. Another more fantastic derivation traces it to aid, See also:goat, and See also:Pryor, speech, and makes it a conversation of shepherds. The See also:idea of dialogue, however, is not necessary for an eclogue, which is often not to be distinguished from the idyll. The grammarians, in giving this See also:title to See also:Virgil's pastoral conversations (Bucolica), tended to make the See also:term " eclogue " apply exclusively to dialogue, and this has in fact been the result of the success of Virgil's See also:work. Latin eclogues were also written by See also:Calpurnius Siculus and by See also:Nemesianus. In See also:modern literature the term has lost any distinctive See also:character which it may have possessed among the See also:Romans; it is merged in the See also:general notion of pastoral See also:poetry. The See also:French " Eglogues " of J. R. de Segrais (1624–1701) were See also:long famous, and those of the See also:Spanish poet Garcilasso de La See also:Vega (1503–1536) are still admired. See also See also:BucoLIcs; PASTORAL.

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