[365] μοῦνος may signify here ‘all by thyself,’ as Od.3. 217; but, strictly speaking, Telemachus did not go all by himself, and, in connection with “ἀγαπητός”, it seems natural to render it, ‘the only one, the darling;’ especially as this dependence of the family of Odysseus upon a single heir was evidently a familiar idea, cp. Od.16. 117, foll. “ἡμετέρην γενεὴν μούνωσε Κρονίων”,
“μοῦνον Λαέρτην Ἀρκείσιος υἱὸν ἔτικτε”,“μοῦνον δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ Ὀδυσῆα πατὴρ τέκεν: αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺς”
“μοῦνον ἐμ᾽ ἐν μεγάροισι τεκὼν λίπεν”.
