Cyclops, ôpis, m. g. A Cyclope. These Cyclops were an auncient people inhabiting the yle of Sycilie, which were like gigants, hauing but one eye in their foreheads.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Cclops, ōpis (acc. -ōpem or -ōpa), m., = *ku/klwy (a round eye), a Cyclops; in plur.: Cyclopes, um,
the Cyclopes, a fabulous race of giants on the coast of Sicily; said to have each but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead; to them were ascribed the walls called Cyclopean; plur
., Cic. Div. 2, 19, 43; Plin. 7, 56, 57, 195-198; Verg. A. 6, 630; 8, 424; Hor. C. 1, 4, 7; Ov. M. 3, 305 et saep.; sing.kat) e)coxh/n, the Cyclops Polyphemus, Verg. A. 3, 617; Hor. A. P. 145; Ov. M. 13, 744 sq.; 14, 174 sq.; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, 146 et saep.: Cyclopa saltare,
to imitate Polyphemus by pantomime
, Hor. S. 1, 5, 63; so, moveri, id. Ep. 2, 2, 125 Orell.— Hence, II.Adj.A. Cclōpēus, a, um, = *kuklw/peios, Cyclopean, of the Cyclopes; only plur as subst.: Cclōpēa, ōrum, n., the myth of the Cyclopes as represented in a pantomime: ludere, Treb. Poll. Gall. 8, 3; Vop. Carin. 19, 3.—B. Cclōpĭus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to the Cyclopes: saxa, in Sicily, Verg. A. 1, 201: at Mycenae, Sen. Herc. Fur. 997: regna, Sil. 14, 33.
