One says [nominative] *mormw/, [genitive] *mormou=s, like Sappho.[1]. Also [nominative] *mormw/n, [genitive] *mormo/nos. Aristophanes [writes]: "I beg you, take the Mormo away from me." [Meaning] away the frightening things; for Mormo was frightening.[2] And elsewhere Aristophanes [writes]: "a Mormo for his courage!" [sc. This refers to] a mormolukeion, which they call Lamia; and thus also they would call frightening things. The [word] w(s is omitted, [i.e.] 'as Mormo', or it is formed adverbially, as if one said, 'Alas for courage!'[3]