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cyclicus

cyclicus, of a cycle

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cyclĭcus, a, um, adj., = κυκλικός, prop. circular; hence,
  • 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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