Eclogue, n.

(ěk'log), n. [Fr. éclogue, églogue, Lat. ecloga, from Gr. ἐκλογή, a picking out, selection, a choice collection, especially of passages in authors, from ἐκλέγειν. See ECLECTIC.] (Poet.) A pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Eclogues of Virgil.