Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, κυκλ-ικός

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κυκλ-ικός , ή, όν,

A.circular, moving in a circle, “σῶμα” Arist.Cael.289a30, “κίνησις” Placit.2.7.5; “περίοδος” D.S.2.36: metaph., Procl.Inst.33. Adv. -“κῶς, κινεῖσθαι” Arist.Cael.272b24.

2. of a circle, “λόγος” Iamb. in Nic.p.61 P.; κ. ἀριθμός a number which ends in the same digit when squared, Nicom.Ar.2.17.

3. Astrol., subordinate, ruling in rotation, Vett.Val.175.17.

b. -κὰ ἔτη the minimum duration of life corresponding to a planet, Balbill. in Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).236, 237.

4. -κός (sc. πούς), ὁ, a form of anapaest in which the long syllable is shorter than a normal long, D.H.Comp.17.

II. κυκλικοί, οἱ, the poets of the Epic cycle (cf. κύκλος), Sch.Il.3.242, al.; also “ἡ κ. Θηβαΐς” Ath.11.465e; but τὸ ποίημα τὸ κ. commonplace, conventional poem (cf.IV), Call.Epigr.30.1.

III. f.l. for κύκλιος 11, “χορός” Lys.21.2; τῶν κυκλικῶν (v.l. κυκλίων）“ αὐλητῶν” Luc.Salt.2.

IV. in common use, ἡ κ. (sc. ἔκδοσις) the vulgate, Sch.Od.16.195, 17.25: but Adv. -κῶς conventionally, οὐ κ. τὰ ἐπίθετα προσέρριπται ib.7.115.

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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