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μύριοι (myrioi)

μύριοι is an Ancient Greek form of μυρίος, meaning “countless; ten thousand”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 149 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1082: μυρίοι ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα πεφυζότες ἠερέθοντο.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.107.5: ἐβοήθησαν δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι πανδημεὶ καὶ Ἀργείων χίλιοι καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ξυμμάχων ὡς ἕκαστοι· ξύμπαντες δὲ ἐγένοντο τετρακισχίλιοι καὶ μύριοι.

Hesiod, Works and Days 252: τρὶς γὰρ μύριοί εἰσιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ

All forms of μυρίος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.