būcŏlĭcus, a, um, adj., = βουκολικός, 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., = τὰ Βουκολικά, Bucolics , Ov. Tr. 2, 538: Bucolica Theocriti et Vergilii, Gell. 9, 9, 4; cf. Serv. ad Verg. E.1.—
II Esp.
A Bucolice tome = βουκολικὴ τομή; in metre, the bucolic caesura; 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.