cuclic

[Lat. cyclic us=a cyclic poet; Gr. kyklikos in a cycle, from kyklos.] [CYCLE.] I. Ord. Lang.: Pertaining to or moving in a cycle; cyclical. II. Technically : 1. Hist .: Pertaining to a Roman year of ten months existing in early times. 2. Literature: Pertaining to the cyclic poets, or to the cycle of events which they recorded. (1) Cyclic chorus : [So called because the per formers danced round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.] Greek worship: The chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens. It was opposed to similar dances in which the arrangement was in a square. (2) Cyclic poets : Certain poets whose compo sitions taken collectively formed a cycle or series of the family Cycladide (q. v.). The shell is thin, ventricose, and nearly equilateral, the cardinal mythic and heroic story, down to the death of teeth 1 minute, the lateral ones 1-1 to 2-2, elon- Uly es; hence a cycle or series of poets on any gated and compre ed. Sixty species are known subject. from Europe, Asia, and America. The fo il species "The Homer of this race of cyclic poets was to be an are thirty-eight, from the Wealden onward. Cyclas Italian."-Milman: Hist. Latin Christianity, bk. xiv., cornea is common in this country; C. rivicola is ch. vi. in the Thames, England, .; C. caliculata in the North of England. A sub-genus Pisidium, with in equilateral shells, is also represented in America. [PISIDIUM.] cycle (pr. sikl), s. [Gr. kyklos a circle.] *A. Ordinary Language : IMG:content-1682.png:[blocks in formation]