The bird is often spoken of in Latin poetry, and is the subject of an idyll by Claudian.
The idyll of Sesenheim, as described in Dichtung and Wahrheit, is one of the most beautiful love-stories in the literature of the world.
There are some small hotels, trattorias and cafes but little to mar a summers day idyll.
Well, that is the whole of this simple village idyll, I think.
Idyll vii., the Harvest Feast (eaXUVla), is the most important of the bucolic poems. The scene is laid in the isle of Cos.