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Headword: *monio/s
Adler number: mu,1221
Translated headword: solitary [male animal]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Referring to a] wild boar.[1]
[Meaning] the one who has been forsaken; or the singular(ly fierce) wolf.[2]
Greek Original:
*monio/s: a)/grios u(=s. o( memonwme/nos: h)\ o( mono/lukos.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica: see the references at Photius mu516 Theodoridis. The headword is taken to be quoted from the Septuagint (Psalm 79.14). See further, next note
[2] According to Adler, 'Pearson' -- presumably Bishop John Pearson (1613-1686), author of Adversaria Hesychiana -- compared Theodoret (PG 80,1516bc) on Psalm 79.14 LXX. (In another context altogether, the second gloss here, mono/lukos, was according to Plutarch an epithet applied by Demosthenes to Alexander the Great.)
Keywords: Christianity; definition; ethics; imagery; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 31 July 2009@18:50:48.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented n.2; more keywords; tweaks) on 2 August 2009@05:04:24.
David Whitehead (expanded notes) on 26 May 2013@08:51:04.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 26 May 2013@23:17:06.
David Whitehead (coding) on 18 May 2016@09:45:04.

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