11. The first recorded mention of the hippogriff was made by the Latin poet Virgil in his Eclogues . 12. The Roman poet Virgil adapted pastoral into Latin with his highly influential " Eclogues ". 13. Patterson explains that Servius'Commentary is essential to understanding the reception of Virgil's Eclogues . 14. It takes its title from the third " Eclogue " of Garcilaso de la Vega. 15. He wrote political letters, eclogues , lyrics, operas and satires, both in prose and verse. 16. The first artist painted a single miniature on folio 1 recto, an illustration for the First Eclogue . 17. He has had poems published in the Newcastle Poetry Prize anthologies " Sunweight " and " Eclogues ". 18. Different scholars have attempted to identify the theatre described in Eclogue VII with different historical theatres in Rome. 19. A line from his sixth eclogue is echoed in Winter s song at the end of the same play. 20. Lines 53 57 feature the image of a singing poet, which is reminiscent of how the eclogue began.
