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ἡμι-κύκλιος , ον, (κύκλος)
A.semicircular, Sch. A.R.4.1613:—also ἡμί-κυκλος , ον“, στοά” Philostr.Im.1.12, cf. Hld.8.14.
II. as Subst., ἡμι-κύκλιον , τό, semicircle, Arist.APo.41b17, Ph. 264b24; hemisphere, Ach.Tat.Intr.Arat.27, Heph.Astr.2.11; of a tactical formation, κατὰ τὸ ἡ. Onos.21.5.
2. a place for public entertainment or meeting, Plu.Alc.17, Nic.12; Place of assembly at Samos, Porph.VP9.
3. semicircular seat, armchair, Cic.Lael.1.2, Poll.6.9.
4. semicircular dial, Vitr.9.8.1.
5. semicircular statue-base, IG11(2).287B73 (Delos, iii B.C.), BCH29.543 (ibid.); drum of a half-column, Rev.Phil.43.182 (Didym.).
6. barrel-vault, Ph.Bel. 87.12.
7. theatrical machine, described by Poll.4.127, 131.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.1613
    • Plutarch, Alcibiades, 17
    • Plutarch, Nicias, 12
    • Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Imagines, 1.12
    • Onasander, Strategicus, 21.5
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