Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Monogrammos

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MONOGRAM'MOS (μονόγραμμος). Literally, drawn in outline, like the earliest attempts at painting, which consisted only of outlines (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 5.); thence transferred to any thing which has no substance, as the gods (Cic. N. D. ii. 23.); or a wretchedly attenuated person (Lucil. Sat. ii. 17. Gerlach.