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σφαιρ-ικός , ή, όν,
A.globular, spherical, Placit.1.14.2, al., Cleom.1.1, al., Arist.PA680b14 (v.l.), Ptol.Geog.1.20.2. Adv. -κῶς like a globe, spherically, Arist.Mu.393a1, Plu.2.404f.
2. ς. ἀριθμός, = ἀποκαταστατικὸς (q.v.) ἀριθμός, Nicom.Ar.2.17, Theol.Ar.48, cf. “σφαιροειδής” 1.2.
II. of a sphere, “ἐπιφάνεια” Euc.Opt.23 (recens.Theonis); προϋφέστηκεν ἡ γεωμετρία τῆς σφαιρικῆς (sc. ἐπιστήμης) Procl. in Euc.p.37 F.: Dor. fem. σφαιρικά, ἁ, Archyt.1.
2. concerning the celestial spheres, “σφαιρικὰ . . [τέχνα] Ἀράτου” IG12(5).891.4 (Tenos); ὁ ς. λόγος the doctrine of the spheres, D.S.4.27; so τὰ ς. AP11.318 (Phld.), Porph. ap. Eus.PE3.7, Jul.Or.4.148b; ἡ τῶν Θεοδοσίου σφαιρικῶν ἀστρονομία, a work cited by Olymp. in Phlb. p.280 S.; called τὰ Θεοδοσίου ς. by Sch.Autol.p.4 H., and still extant with the latter title (ed. J. L. Heiberg, Abh. d. Gesellsch. d. Wiss.zu Göttingen, Phil.-Hist.Kl., N.F. xix 3, Berlin 1927).
III. ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη), = ἡ σφαιριστική, Ath.1.14e, 15c.
IV. -κόν, τό, name of an eye-salve, Gal.12.784.
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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