[Meaning] soft hair.
In the Epigrams: "[...] and more tender-skinned than down".[1]
Mnous: hê hapalê thrix. en Epigrammasi: kai mnou chrôta tereinoterê.
The headword is the contracted form of
mno/os. See generally LSJ s.v. (web address 1): 'fine, soft down, as on young birds'.
[1]
Philodemus in
Greek Anthology 5.120.2 [ = 5.121.2 in Paton's Loeb]; see already, more fully, at
mu 26. Find another excerpt from this epigram, the poet's description of his lover's many charms, at
kappa 1428.
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