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μόνι^μος , ον, also η, ον AP12.224 (Strat.): (μονή, μένω):—
A.staying in one's place, stable, Hp.Art.62; μ. οὐδένα χρόνον ib.14; stationary, “ζῷα μ. κατὰ τόπον” Arist.de An.410b19; “ζῷα μ.” Id.HA487b6; “ἡ τῶν φυτῶν φύσις μ.” Id.PA656a1; ἄστρα μ. fixed stars, Poll.4.156; οἶνος μ. wine which will keep, PGrenf.2.24.14 (ii B. C.); μ. σφυγμός steady pulse, Gal.9.351. Adv. -μως Arist.HA596a14, Gal.17(1).508.
2. of persons, steady, steadfast, S.OT1322 (lyr.); “ἐν πολέμῳ” Pl.R.537d, cf. X.Cyr.8.5.11 (Sup.), Pl.Lg.706c.
3. freq. of things, conditions, and the like , lasting, stable, “ὁ μέγας ὄλβος οὐ μ.” E.Or.340 (lyr.); of political institutions, Th.8.89, Arist.Pol.1273b20, 1297a7 (Comp.); “μ. πόλεις” Pl.Plt.302a: coupled with ἀμετάπτωτος, Id.Ti. 29b; with βέβαιος, Id.Smp.184b; τὸ μ. permanence, Plot.6.1.11: Comp., Dam.Pr.77. Adv. -μως Iamb.Myst.1.5, Procl.Inst.154.
II. μόνιμον, τό, fixed abode, LXX Je.38(31).17.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Euripides, Orestes, 340
    • Plato, Laws, 706c
    • Plato, Republic, 537d
    • Plato, Statesman, 302a
    • Plato, Symposium, 184b
    • Plato, Timaeus, 29b
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1322
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.89
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.5.11
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 14
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 62
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