Related to: μονόω,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect μουνόω, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.117, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (see. below)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but μον- in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.470 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: (μόνος):— make single or solitary, ἡμετέρην γενεὴν μούνωσε Κρονίων made our race single, i. e. allowed but one son in each generation, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.117 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. τὸν Φίλιππον leave him isolated, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.16.10 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; get alone, τινὰ ἐν σπήλυγγι [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 9.451 ] Refs]; strip of predicates, make unique, [θεόν] [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.8.15. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II more frequently in passive, to be left alone, forsaken, ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι μονωθείς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place]; μουνωθέντα παρ᾽ οἴεσιν ἢ παρὰ βουσίν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.386 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐμουνοῦντο they were left each man by himself, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.123 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μουνωθέντα taken apart, without witnesses (variant for{μουνόθεν}), [[ [prev. author] 1.116; γυνὴ μονωθεῖσ᾽ οὐδέν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 749 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of animals when hunted, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 9.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; when left solitary, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 578b33 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the soul, to be separated from the body, [[ 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 36 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of things, to be taken alone, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1096b17 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; to be isolated in thought, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 195. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]