Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κύκλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύκλιος κύκλιᾱ κύκλιον

Structure: κυκλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ku/klos

Sense

  1. round, circular
  2. a chorus danced in a ring round an altar, a dithyrambic chorus, dithyrambic songs

Examples

  • παρὰ δὲ λευκοφαῆ ψάμαθον εἱλισσόμεναι κύκλια πεντήκοντα κόραι γάμουσ Νηρέωσ ἐχόρευσαν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, strophe 13)
  • μέλη πεποίηκ’ ἐσ τὰσ Νεφελοκοκκυγίασ τὰσ ὑμετέρασ κύκλιά τε πολλὰ καὶ καλὰ καὶ παρθένεια καὶ κατὰ τὰ Σιμωνίδου. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, lyric9)
  • χρηστὸν δὲ καὶ ἐν Βυζαντίῳ ὄψει καὶ μέγεθοσ κυκλίᾳ ἴσον ἀσπίδι νῶτα φοροῦντα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 113 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. round

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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