κυκλικός
ἡμέραν δ' ἐξ ἡμέρας ῥίπτεις κυβεύων τὸν πρὸς Ἀργείους Ἀρη → day after day you cast your dice in war against the Argives, day by day you make your throw adventuring war against the Argives
English (LSJ)
ή, όν,
A circular, moving in a circle, σῶμα Arist.Cael.289a30, κίνησις Placit.2.7.5; περίοδος D.S.2.36: metaph., Procl.Inst.33. Adv. -κῶς, κινεῖσθαι Arist.Cael.272b24. 2 of a circle, λόγος Iamb. in Nic.p.61 P.; κ. ἀριθμός a number which ends in the same digit when squared, Nicom.Ar.2.17. 3 Astrol., subordinate, ruling in rotation, Vett.Val.175.17. b -κὰ ἔτη the minimum duration of life corresponding to a planet, Balbill. in Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).236, 237. 4 -κός (sc. πούς), ὁ, a form of anapaest in which the long syllable is shorter than a normal long, D.H.Comp.17. II κυκλικοί, οἱ, the poets of the Epic cycle (cf. κύκλος), Sch.Il.3.242, al.; also ἡ κ. Θηβαΐς Ath.11.465e; but τὸ ποίημα τὸ κ. commonplace, conventional poem (cf.IV), Call.Epigr.30.1. III f.l. for κύκλιος 11, χορός Lys.21.2; τῶν κυκλικῶν (v.l. κυκλίων) αὐλητῶν Luc.Salt.2. IV in common use, ἡ κ. (sc. ἔκδοσις) the vulgate, Sch.Od.16.195, 17.25: but Adv. -κῶς conventionally, οὐ κ. τὰ ἐπίθετα προσέρριπται ib.7.115.
