1699. Bentley, Phal., 295–6. The Chorus belonging to the Dithyramb was not call’d a Tragic, but Cyclian Chorus.
1840. trans. Müller’s Hist. Lit. Greece, xiv. 204. In the time of Aristophanes, the expressions ‘dithyrambic poet’ and ‘teacher of cyclian choruses’ (κυκλιοδιδάσκαλος) were nearly synonymous.
1847. Leitch, trans. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 415. The Cyclian poets, who formed the introduction and continuation to the Iliad.
