 Complete the following phrase:  The biographical tradition asserts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues or Bucolics in 42 BC and it is thought that the collection was published around 3938 BC, although this is controversial. The Eclogues from the Greek for selections are a group of ten poems roughly modeled on the bucolic that is, pastoral or rural poetry of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, which were written in dactylic hexameter. After defeating the army led by the 