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μονόστιχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μονόστιχος μονόστιχον

Structure: μονοστιχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. consisting of one verse, single verses

Examples

  • ἐπειγόμενοσ δὲ τῷ καιρῷ καὶ παραπλέων τὰσ πόλεισ ὑπὸ σπουδῆσ, ὅμωσ οὐ παρῆλθε τὰσ Ἀθήνασ, ἀναβὰσ δὲ καὶ θύσασ τοῖσ θεοῖσ καὶ προσαγορεύσασ τὸν δῆμον εὐθὺσ ἀπιὼν ἀνεγίνωσκεν εἰσ αὐτὸν ἐπιγεγραμμένα μονόστιχα, τὸ μὲν ἐντὸσ τῆσ πύλησ· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 27 3:1)
  • εἰσ τὸν αὐτὸν μονόστιχα χριστέ, τεὴν προϊάλλε χάριν καμάτοισιν ἐμεῖο. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 291)

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

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