Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μονομάχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μονομάχος μονομάχον

Structure: μονομαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xomai

Sense

  1. fighting in single combat
  2. a gladiator

Examples

  • ἤκουσε τέκνα μονομάχῳ μέλλειν δορὶ ἐσ ἀσπίδ’ ἥξειν βασιλικῶν δόμων ὕπερ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:11)
  • ᾔδει δὲ καὶ ἔναγχοσ τὴν Ἰταλίαν σχεδὸν ἅπασαν ἀπὸ Ῥωμαίων ἀποστᾶσαν ὑπὸ ἔχθουσ, καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον αὐτοῖσ πεπολεμηκυῖαν, Σπαρτάκῳ τε μονομάχῳ συστᾶσαν ἐπ’ αὐτούσ, ἀνδρὶ ἐπ’ οὐδεμιᾶσ ἀξιώσεωσ ὄντι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. fighting in single combat

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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