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μονα^χ-ός , ή, όν, (μόνος)
A.unique, Arist.Metaph.1040a29; στερεὰ μ. a single set of solids, ib.1076b29; “ὅσα μ. ἔχει συμφωνίαν” Epicur.Ep.2p.36U.; “τὰ σπλάγχνα ἔχειν μ.” D.S.2.58, cf. Apollod.Poliorc.181.10; μ. τέκνα only children, Ptol.Tetr.190; τὰ μ. individual cases, Phld.Sign.14, al.; τὸ μ. uniqueness, Plot.6.8.7. Adv. -“χῶς” Epicur.Ep.1p.30U.
2. solitary, deserted, μοναχῷ ἐνὶ rure “Κρεβέννου” Aus.Ep.8.23.
3. of legal documents, executed in a single copy, BGU13.16 (iii A. D.), etc. Adv. -“χῶς” Sammelb.5810.20 (iv A. D.).
II. Subst., monk, AP11.384 (Pall.), Procop.Pers.1.7.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 2.58
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 190
    • Procopius, de Bellis, 1.7
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