A.she-monster, bogey, dub. in Erinn. in PSI9.1090.51 + 11 (p. xii); used by nurses to frighten children, Luc.Philops.2: generally, bugbear, “ἀπένεγκέ μου τὴν μορμόνα” Ar.Ach.582; “οὐδὲν δεόμεθ᾽ . . τῆς σῆς μορμόνος” Id.Pax474 (both times of Lamachus' helmet and crest); φοβεῖσθαι τοὺς πελταστάς, ὥσπερ μορμόνας （-ῶνας codd.) “παιδάρια” X.HG4.4.17.
Μορμώ , όος, contr. οῦς, also Μορμών , όνος, ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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