I.of or belonging to the lute or lyre, lyric: “lyrici soni,” Ov. F. 2, 94: “vates,” Hor. C. 1, 1, 35: “senex,” i. e. Anacreon, Ov. Tr. 2, 364: “regnator lyricae cohortis,” i. e. Pindar, Stat. S. 4, 7, 5.— Subst.
B. lyrĭcus , i, m., = λυρικο:ς, a lyric poet, Sid. Ep. 4, 1: “Bacchylides,” Amm. 25, 4, 3.—Usually plur.: lyrĭci , ōrum, m., lyric poets, Quint. 9, 4, 53; 1, 8, 6; 8, 6, 71; 10, 1, 96; 61 (in Cic. Or. 55, written in Gr. letters, λυρικοί).
