Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἐγκύκλ-ιος

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A.circular, round, “χοροί” E.IT429 (lyr.), Aeschin.1.10; “τὸ ἐ. σῶμα” Arist.Cael.286a11; ἐ. κίνησις, φορά, motion in a circle, ib.293a11, 296a35; “δρόμημα θεῶν” Corp.Herm.3.3. Adv. -ίως in a circle, “φέρεσθαι” Arist.Mete.339a12, cf. Euc.Phaen.p.2 M., Hero Aut.11.8, Plu.2.1004c; “καθῆσθαι” Asp.in EN10.31.

II. revolving in a cycle, recurrent: hence, at Athens, λῃτουργίαι ἐ. public services required regularly every year, opp. to those required at uncertain times, D.20.21; ἐ. δίκαια rights common to all citizens, Id.25.74.

III. ordinary, everyday, “ἐν τοῖς ἐ. καὶ τοῖς καθ᾽ ἡμέραν γιγνομένοις” Isoc.3.22, cf. 8.87, Arist.Pol.1269b35; ἐ. διακονίαι everyday duties, ib. 1263a21; “τὰ ἐ. καὶ πολιτικά” Epicur.Sent.Vat.58; “ἡ ἐ. διοίκησις” IG12 (5).653.56 (Syros, i B.C.); ἐ. ἀναλώματα ib.1.329; ἐ. [τέλη] taxes farmed out annually, ib.11(2).161 A36, 203 A 29 (Delos, iii B. C.); “ταμίαι τῶν ἐ.” SIG577.11 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.).

b. μεγάλοις ἐ. συμπτώμασιν (sc. πάθος) commonly liable to, Phld.Ir.p.29 W.

2. Arist., τὰ ἐ. φιλοσοφήματα or τὰ ἐ., = τὰ ἐξωτερικά, Cael.279a30; “ἐν τοῖς ἐ. εἴρηται” EN1096a3.

3. ἐ. παιδεία general education, prior to professional studies, D.H.Comp.25, Plu.2.1135d; “οἱ περὶ τὰ ἐ. παιδευταί” Id.Alex.7; “τὰ ἐ. παιδεύματα” Id.2.7c, cf. Vitr.6 Praef.4, Quint.Inst. 1.10.1, Ath.4.184b, Luc.Am.45; also ἐ. ἀγωγή instruction in general knowledge, Str.1.1.22; ἐ. τέχνη Olymp.Alch.p.91 B.

IV. ἐγκύκλιον, τό, tax on sales, PLond.3.1200 (ii B.C.), PAmh.2.53 (ii B. C.), etc.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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