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μυρίος

μυρίος, μυρίος, numberless, countless

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μυρίαι Adjective: feminine dative singular, Adjective: feminine nominative plural, Adjective: feminine vocative plural of μυρίος

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μῡρίος [ῐ], α, ον (ος, ον APl. 16.40 (Crin.)),
  • numberless, countless, infinite, prop. of Number, and commonly in pl., as mostly in Hom., Il. 2.468, al.: also in sg. with collective Nouns, χέραδος μυρίον 21.320; λόγχη E. Ph. 441; χαλκός Pi. N. 10.45; χρυσός Theoc. 16.22: strengthd., μάλα μυρίοι Od. 17.422, 19.78; πολλάκις μυριοι Pl. Tht. 175a; μυρίαι ἐπὶ μυριαις πόλεις Id. Lg. 676b, cf. Tht. 155c, D.H. Rh. 7.4.
      • 2 in Poets also, of Size, measureless, immense, infinite, μυρίος ὦνος Od. 15.452; πένθος, ἄχος μ., Il. 18.88, 20.282; μυρία ἄλγεα, κήδεα, 1.2, 24.639; μ. παντᾷ κέλευθος a boundless course, Pi. I. 4(3).1, cf. B. 5.31; πάρεστι μ. κέλευθος μελέων Id. 18.1; μ. παντᾷ φάτις Id. 8.48; μ. μόχθοι, ἄχθος, A. Pr. 541 (lyr.), S. Ph. 1168 (lyr.); χάρις E. Alc. 544; κλέος Theoc. Ep. 21.2; μ. εὐφροσύνη APl. l.c. (Crin.): in Ion. Prose, ὄψις μυρίη all kinds of sights, Hdt. 2.136; μ. κακότης, εὐδαιμονίη, Id. 6.67; θῶμα Id. 2.148: sts. in Pl., μ. πενία, διαφορότης, ἐρημία, Ap. 23c, Phlb. 13a, Lg. 677e: so in later Prose, μ. ἀχλύς Jul. Or. 7.232a.
      • 3 of Time, μ. χρόνος Pi. I. 5(4).28, S. OC 397, 617.
      • 4 neut. pl. μυρία as Adv., immensely, incessantly, ἔκλαυσεν μ. AP 7.374 (Marc. Arg.), cf. 12.169 (Diosc.).
        • b dat. as Adv., μυρίῳ σοφώτερος infinitely wiser, E. Andr. 701; μυρίῳ βέλτιον, μυρίῳ κάλλιον, Pl. R. 520c, Ti. 33b; μυρίῳ πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν διαφέρειν to differ infinitely, Id. Plt. 272c; but μυρίον διαφέρειν Id. Tht. 166d.
    • II as a definite numeral, in pl. μύριοι, αι, α, ten thousand, first in Hes., τρὶς μ. Op. 252, cf. Hdt. 3.95, IG 1(2).63.37, etc.: sg. in military phrases, ἵππος μ. 10,000 horse, A. Pers. 302, Hdt. 1.27, 7.41; ἀσπὶς μ. X. An. 1.7.10: rarely with other words, κατὰ μυρίαν δεσμήν by the 10,000 bundles, PPetr. 3 p.101 (iii B. C.), cf. PSI 4.393.11 (iii B. C.); οἱ Μύριοι the Ten Thousand, an assembly of the Arcadians, X. HG 7.1.38, IG 5(2).1.4 (Tegea, iv B. C.); οἱ Μ. ἐν Μεγάλῃ πόλει D. 19.11.
    • III in late Greek, Adv. μυρίως Alex.Trall. 5.4, Tz. H. 13.521:—acc. to Gramm., μυρίος (parox.) is the indefinite, μύριος (proparox.) the definite number, μύριος ὁ ὡρισμένος ἀριθμός, μυρίος ἀόριστος Hdn.Gr. 1.125, cf. Suid., Eust. 907.8, etc.; but this distn. is not observed in codd.

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