monotony Copy link • monotony: i. e. wearisome similarity: Phr.: avoid m. of delivery, *cave ne omnia quasi uno tenore pronuntientur: there is a m. about his poetry, *carmina ejus nimis lenta aequabilitate fluunt, cf. Cic. Or. 16, 53 (ingrato quodam tenore fluunt, Kr.: better perh., nimis aequabili tenore laborant); *desideratur in carminibus ejus grata quaedam varietas, Kr. See also monotone.