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   Eclogue , n. [L. ecloga, Gr.  a selection, choice extracts, fr.  to pick out, choose out; ἐκ  out +  to gather, choose: cf.  F. égloque, écloque. See Ex-, and Legend.] A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.