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κυκλ-έω ,
A.wheel along, in Hom. only once, κυκλήσομεν ἐνθάδε νεκροὺς βουσὶ καὶ ἡμιόνοισιν, Il.7.332.
2. move round or in a circle, “ὁδοῖς κυκλῶν ἐμαυτὸν εἰς ἀναστροφήν” S.Ant.226; ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ δυσμενεῖ βάσιν κυκλοῦντα, metaph., from dogs questing about for the scent, Id.Aj.19; “σὸν πόδ᾽ ἐπὶ συννοίᾳ κυκλεῖς” E.Or.632, cf. Ar.Av.1379; κ. πρόσωπον, ὄμμα, look round, look about, E.Ph.364, Ar.Th.958 (lyr.); = κυκλεύω 1, Hp. Fract.4.
3. bring round, repeat, “τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον” Arist.Cael.300a33.
II. Med. and Pass., form a circle round, encompass, encircle, “μηνοειδὲς ποιήσαντες τῶν νεῶν ἐκυκλεῦντο ὡς περιλάβοιεν αὐτούς” Hdt.8.16 (elsewh. κυκλόομαι）; ἴδεσθέ μ᾽ οἷον ἄρτι κῦμα . . κυκλεῖται encompasses me, S.Aj.353 (lyr.).
2. go round and round, revolve, “τὴν αὐτὴν φορὰν κ.” Pl.R.617a; “χρόνου . . κατ᾽ ἀριθμὸν κυκλουμένου” Id.Ti.38a; “οὑμὸς αἰεὶ πότμος ἐν πυκνῷ θεοῦ τροχῷ κυκλεῖται” S.Fr.871; “ὁ βίος ἀγαθοῖς τε καὶ κακοῖς κ. πάντα τὸν αἰῶνα” D.S.18.59; δι᾽ ἀλλήλων αὐτοῖς -εῖται τὸ κακόν, of the vicious circle in disease, Gal.10.360.
3. assemble in knots, X.An.6.4.20, Cyr.6.2.12.
4. metaph., of sayings, etc., to be current, pass from mouth to mouth, “τὸ κυκλούμενον παρὰ πᾶσιν ἔπος” Plu.2.118c.
III. intr. in Act., revolve, come round and round, πολλαὶ κυκλοῦσι νύκτες ἡμέραι τ᾽ ἴσαι (but read κυκλοῦνται as L had originally) S.El.1365; “δελφῖνες . . πέριξ κυκλοῦντες” Plu.2.16 of.
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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