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cyclĭcus , a, um, adj., = κυκλικός, prop. circular; hence,
I. Cyclicus scriptor, a cyclic poet, one of the epic poets who treated in regular order the cycle of myths from the beginning of the world to the time of Telemachus, Hor. A. P. 136: “cyclica carmina,” cyclic poems, Isid. Orig. 6, 17, 4; cf. Liddell and Scott, s. v. κυκλικός, II.—
II. Forming a complete cycle, encyclopædic: “disciplinae,” Mart. Cap. 9, § 998.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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