The corpus record

μονομᾰχ-έω

monomacheo

fight in single combat

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Where it lives

Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

μονομᾰχ-έω · monomach-eō — LSJ

fight in single combat

fight in single combat, E. Ph. 1220; τινι with one, Hdt. 9.26, Pl. Cra. 391e, etc.; πρός τινα Plb. 35.5.1.

II having fought single-handed

μοῦνοι Ἑλλήνων μουνομαχήσαντες τῷ Πέρσῃ having fought single-handed with the Persians, of the Athenians at Marathon, Hdt. 9.27; δυοῖσι οὐκ ἂν μουνομαχέοιμι Id. 7.104.

III fight as a gladiator

fight as a gladiator, Posidipp. 22, Luc. Tox. 58, Hdn. 1.17.2, D.C. 75.16.

In the wild

μονομαχῆσαι · monomachēsai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 593)
μονομαχῆσαι · monomachēsai Epictetus, Discourses 1.29 (DIORISIS sentence 1690)
μονομαχῆσαι · monomachēsai Epictetus, Discourses 3.22 (DIORISIS sentence 4830)
μονομαχεῖν · monomachein Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 716)
μουνομαχέοιμι · mounomacheoimi Herodotus, Histories 7.104.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7671)
μουνομαχῆσαι · mounomachēsai Herodotus, Histories 9.26.3 (DIORISIS sentence 9487)

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