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μονόω , Ep. and Ion. μουνόω , Od. 16.117, Hdt. (v. infr.); but μον- in Il.11.470: (μόνος):—
A.make single or solitary, ἡμετέρην γενεὴν μούνωσε Κρονίων made our race single, i. e. allowed but one son in each generation, Od.16.117; μ. τὸν Φίλιππον leave him isolated, Plb.5.16.10; get alone, “τινὰ ἐν σπήλυγγιAP9.451; strip of predicates, make unique, [θεόν] Plot.6.8.15.
II. more freq. in Pass., to be left alone, forsaken, “ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι μονωθείςIl. l. c.; “μουνωθέντα παρ᾽ οἴεσιν παρὰ βουσίνOd.15.386; ἐμουνοῦντο they were left each man by himself, Hdt. 8.123; μουνωθέντα taken apart, without witnesses (v. l. for μουνόθεν), Id.1.116; “γυνὴ μονωθεῖσ᾽ οὐδένA.Supp.749; of animals when hunted, X.Cyn.9.9; when left solitary, Arist.HA578b33; of the soul, to be separated from the body, Diog.Oen.36; of things, to be taken alone, Arist.EN1096b17; to be isolated in thought, Dam.Pr.195.
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    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 749
    • Euripides, Alcestis, 296
    • Euripides, Alcestis, 380
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.102
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.15
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.139
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    • Homer, Iliad, 11.470
    • Homer, Odyssey, 15.386
    • Homer, Odyssey, 16.117
    • Plato, Laws, 710b
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.81
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    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 9.9
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.16.10
    • Euripides, Rhesus, 871
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.40
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.43
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