Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz: “I am looking also for Persius, and a certain edition of the Eclogues of Vergilius, which I do not possess.”
Penguin Island by Anatole France: “In truth I have not in my fourth Eclogue betrayed the faith of my ancestors; 'JAM REDIT ET VIRGO'”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “Trying to recall a Plotinus title: "The Eclogues? No, dammit, that was Virgil."”
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: “His Gitanjali, Eclogues, or that play Othello that he explained was really Attallah or Attaullah except the writer couldn't spell, what sort of writer was that, anyway? (author inferred as Virgil, the canonical 'Eclogues'; not named directly in text)”
Camilla by Frances Burney: “A circumstance in the scenery before him now struck Dr. Orkborne with some resemblance to a verse in one of Virgil's Eclogues, which he thought might be happily applied to illustrate a passage in his own work;”
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes: “Young gentlemen of all ages from nine to fifteen were to be found there, who expended such part of their energies as was devoted to Latin and Greek upon a book of Livy, the "Bucolics" of Virgil, and the "Hecuba" of Euripides, which were ground out in small daily portions.”
The Pirate by Walter Scott: “He endured the Bucolics of Virgil--the Georgics he had by heart--but the Aeneid he could not away with;”