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κυκλ-όω , fut. -ώσω E.Cyc.462: pf.
A.“κεκύκλωκα” Plb.3.116.10:— Med., fut. -ώσομαι X.Cyr.6.3.20: aor. “ἐκυκλωσάμην” Hdt.9.18, Th.5.72:—Pass., fut. κυκλωθήσομαι (v.l. -ώσομαι) D.H.3.24: pf. “κεκύκλωμαι” Th.4.32 (in med. sense (ἐγ-) Ar.V.395): aor. “ἐκυκλώθην” X. Cyr.6.3.20: (κύκλος):—encircle, surround, “Ὠκεανὸς . . κυκλοῖ χθόνα” E. Or.1379 (lyr.); “πόλιν . . κυκλώσας Ἄρει φονίῳ” Id.IA775 (lyr.); ὅταν κυκλώσωσι [τοὺς ἰχθῦς] Arist.HA533b27:—more freq. in Med., “κυκλώσασθαί τινας” Hdt.3.157, 9.18, Plb.1.17.13; “κ. αὐτοὺς ἐς μέσον” Hdt.8.10, cf. A.Th.121 (lyr.), Call.Hec.1.1.14, etc.: such forms as κυκλοῦνται, ἐκυκλοῦντο, etc., may belong to κυκλόω or to κυκλέω, Th.4.127, 7.81, etc.: abs., κυκλούμενοι by an enveloping movement, Hdt.8.76:—Pass., to be surrounded, A.Th.247, Th.7.81:—joined with Med., εἰ οἱ κυκλούμενοι κυκλωθεῖεν X.l.c.
2. go round, “τὸ θυσιαστήριον” LXX Ps.25 (26).6:—Pass., “κυκλωθεὶς τὸν Ἀδρίαν” D.S.4.25.
II. move in a circle, whirl round, Pi.O.10(11).72; “οὕτω κυκλώσω δαλὸν ἐν φαεσφόρῳ Κύκλωπος ὄψει” E.Cyc.462; “κ. ἀεὶ τὸ σῶμα” Hermipp.4; “οἱ κυκλοῦντες [τὴν θάλασσαν] ἄνεμοι” Plb.11.29.10; “ἵετο κυκλώσας βαλιὰ πτερὰ θῆλυς ἀήτης” Call. in PSI9.1092.53, cf. Archil.92b Diehl: metaph., πολλοὺς λογισμοὺς ἡ πονηρία κυκλοῖ revolves, agitates, Men.378:—Med., hurl, “βέλη” Him.Or.7.17:—Pass. (or Med.), go in a circle, X.An.6.4.20; dance or whirl round, Call.Dian.267, Arat.811: metaph., “δίναις κυκλούμενον κέαρ” A.Ag.997 (lyr.).
III. form into a circle, “κ. τόξα” AP12.82 (Mel.), cf. Him.Or.17.5; incorrectly, “κ. τόξοιο νευρήν” Babr. 68.5:—Pass., form a circle, of a bow, E.Ba.1066; also [τάφρος] περὶ τὸ πεδίον κυκλωθεῖσα being drawn in a circle, Pl.Criti.118d.
IV. abs., “κυκλώσατε ἐπὶ τὸν βασιλέα κύκλῳ” LXX 4 Ki.11.8; ἐκύκλωσα ἐγὼ καὶ ἡ καρδία μου τοῦ γνῶναι ib.Ec.7.26(25).
V. = λακκίζειν, ἀμπέλους Philostr.Her.2.8.
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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