Bucolica

būcŏlĭcus, a, um, adj., = boukolikos, pertaining to shepherds, pastoral, bucolic.

I.

In gen.: Bucolicōn poëma, Virgil ' s pastoral poetry, the Bucolics, Col. 7, 10, 8; and absol.: Būcŏlĭca, ōrum, n., = ta Boukolika, Bucolics, Ov. Tr. 2, 538:

Bucolica Theocriti et Vergilii,

Gell. 9, 9, 4; cf. Serv. ad Verg. E.1.—

II.

Esp.

A.

Bucolice tome = boukolikê tomê; in metre, the bucolic cœsura; that of an hexameter whose fourth foot is a dactyl, and ends a word (e. g. Verg. E. 3, 1:

Dic mihi, Damoeta, cujum pecus? an Meliboei?),

Aus. Ep. 4, 88. —

B.

A species of panaces, Plin. 25, 4, 11, § 31.—

C.

Būcŏlĭci, ōrum, m., a class of Egyptian soldiers, so called from their place of abode, Bucolica, Capitol. Ant. Phil. 21; Vulcat. Avid. Cass. 6, 7.