{ Cyc"lic (s?k"l?k or s?"kl?k), Cyc"lic*al (s?k"l?-kal), } a. [Cf. F. cycluque, Gr. kykliko`s, fr. ky`klos See Cycle.]
Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
Coleridge.
Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens,
dancing round the altar of
Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain
epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan
war and its
heroes; -- so called because
keeping within the circle of
a single subject. Also, any series or
coterie of poets writing on one subject.
Milman.
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