A.made round by turning (“τὴν γῆν ἐοῦσαν κυκλοτερέα ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου” Hdt.4.36): generally, round, circular, κυκλοτερὲς μέγα τόξον ἔτεινε stretched it into a circle, Il.4.124; “ἄλσος πάντοσε κυκλοτερές” Od.17.209; ὀφθαλμός, λιμήν, Hes.Th.145, Sc. 208; “σφαῖρος” Emp.27.4; “φῶς” Id.45; [“ὄρος] κυκλοτερὲς πάντῃ” Hdt.4.184; “πλοῖα κυκλοτερέα ἀσπίδος τρόπον” Id.1.194; κ. κοιλίαι, of the sockets of bones, Hp.Art.61; “αὐχήν” Pl.Smp.190a; “κώθων” Henioch. 1; “οἰκοδόμημα” X.HG4.5.6; “κ. ὁ ὄγκος τῆς γῆς” Arist.Cael.294a8; “γράφουσι κ. τὴν οἰκουμένην” Id.Mete.362b13; “πεδίον κ. τὸ σχῆμα” Str.4.1.7. Adv. -“ρῶς” Placit.1.12.3, Ach. Tat.Intr.Arat.21, Dsc.3.90, Gal.UP16.11. [υ_ always, by position.]
κυκλο-τερής , ές, (τείρω)
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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