I.that consist of lines merely, outlined, sketched; hence transf.,
I. Of incorporeal gods, shadowy: “Epicurus monogrammos Deos et nihil agentes commentus est,” Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59.—Hence, as subst.: mŏnogrammus , i, m., comically, a skeleton, a shadow: “monogrammi dicti sunt homines macie pertenues ac decolores: tractum a picturā, quae priusquam coloribus corporatur, umbra fingitur,” Non. 37, 11 sq.; Lucil. ap. Non. l. l.—
II. A species of jasper: “quae zmaragdo similis traversā lineā albā praecingitur et monogrammos vocatur,” Plin. 37, 9, 37, § 118.
