BUCOL'IC, adjective [Gr. a herdsman; pastoral; Latin buculus, an ox; bucolicus, pertaining to cattle, pastoral.] Pastoral; relating to country affairs and to a shepherd's life and occupation. BUCOL'IC, noun A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners and occupation of shepherds; as the bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. 1. A writer of pastorals.
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