Ecloga, ge, pen. corr Latinè dicitur Electio, electus, explanatio, annotatio. Dicitur & sermocinatio seu colloquium. Electiõ: cheise: communication: talke.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
eclŏga, ae, f., = e)klogh/, a selection, consisting of the finest passages, from a written composition.I. In gen.: eclogas ex Annali descriptas, Varr. ap. Charis. p. 97 P.—II. In partic., a short poem of any kind, like the poems in the Sylvae of Statius; cf. Stat. S. 3 praef.; 4 praef.; the Idyls of Ausonius; cf. Aus. Idyll. 10 praef.; the Odes of Horace, id. ib. 11 praef., and in many MSS. of Horace; and in the grammarians the Bucolica of Vergil are also called Eclogae, Eclogues; cf. Heyne de Carm. Bucol. in Verg. Opp. ed. Wagn. I. p. 18.