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κυκλάς , άδος, ἡ,
A.encircling, αὶ Κυκλάδες νῆσοι the Cyclades, islands in the Aegaean Sea, which encircle Delos, Hdt.5.31, Th.1.4, Isoc.4.136, 12.43, cf. Theoc.17.90, Str.10.5.1: without νῆσοι, Th.2.9; so Κυκλάδας νησαίας πόλεις the cities of those islands, E.Ion1583.
2. recurrent, of Time, Orph.H.53.7.
II. Subst. κυκλάς (sc. ἐσθής), ἡ, a woman's garment with a border all round it, Prop.4(5).7.40.
2. part of an irrigation-machine, PLond.3.776.10 (vi A.D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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