monocolus

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

mŏnŏcōlus: i, m., = μονόκωλος>,
I onelegged, epithet applied to a fabled race of giants, each with but one leg of prodigious strength (post-Aug.): hominum genus, qui monocoli vocarentur, singulis cruribus, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 23; cf. Gell. 9, 4, 9; Sol. 52, 29.