cyclicus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

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, encyclopaedic : disciplinae, Mart. Cap. 9, § 998.

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