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μόνος 1

I.alone, left alone, forsaken solitary, Lat. solus, Hom., etc.; μοῦνος ἐών id=Hom.; μούνω ἄνευθ᾽ ἄλλων Od.
2.c. gen., μόνος σοῦ without thee, Soph.; also, μοῦνος ἀπό τινος Hhymn., Soph.
II.alone, only, μοῦνος παῖς υἱός an only son. Hom.; εἷς μόνος, μόνος εἷς Hdt., Soph.
2.c. gen., μοῦνος πάντων ἀνθρώπων alone of all men, Hdt.; μόνος ἀνδρῶν Soph., etc.
III.Sup. μονώτατος, the one only person, one above all others, Ar., Theocr.
B.adv. μόνως, only, Thuc., Xen.
II.the common adv. is μόνον, alone, only, Lat. solum, Hdt., attic; οὐχ ἅπαξ μ. Aesch.
2.only, Lat. modo, with an imperat., ἀποκρίνου μ. Plat.; μή με καταπίῃς μ. Eur.
3.the adj. often stands as an adv., χοίνικος μόνης ἁλῶν for a gallon of salt only, Ar.
4.οὐ μόνον . . , ἀλλὰ καὶ . . , id=Ar., etc.:— μόνον, like Lat. solum, is sometimes omitted in these phrases, μὴ τοὺς ἐγγύς, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἀπόθεν Thuc.
5.μόνον οὐ, Like Lat. tantum non, all but, Ar., Dem.; μονονουχί Dem.
III.κατὰ μόνας, as adv. alone, Thuc.

1 μόνος, epic and ionic μοῦνος, η, ον

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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