[L., a. Gr. κύκλος CYCLE.] = CYCLE 6; also a series of pictures representing romantic or historical cycle.
1810. H. Weber, Metr. Rom., I. Introd. 69. A … third cyclus of romance, no less extensive than that of Arthur and of Charlemagne.
1837–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit. (1847), I. iv. § 65. 305. That legendary cyclus of heroic song.
1838. Baroness Bunsen, in Hare, Life, I. xi. 482. Hesse’s designs for a cyclus representing the conversion of Germany to Christianity.
