perfume, ointment
Ancient Greek word, found 220 times in the texts on Socratos.
Herodotus, Histories 3.22.3: τρίτον δὲ εἰρώτα τὸ μύρον· εἰπόντων δὲ τῆς ποιήσιος πέρι καὶ ἀλείψιος, τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον τὸν καὶ περὶ τοῦ εἵματος εἶπε. ὡς δὲ ἐς τὸν οἶνο …
Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.39: … ούχου μοχθηροῦ ἐπιγράψαντος ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκίαν, μηδὲν εἰσίτω κακόν, ὁ οὖν κύριος, ἔφη, τῆς οἰκίας ποῦ εἰσέλθῃ; τῷ μύρῳ τοὺς πόδας ἀλειψάμενος ἔφη ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς κεφαλῆς εἰς τὸν ἀέρα ἀπιέναι τὸ μύρον, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν ποδῶν εἰς τὴν ὄσφρησ …
Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 15.114: ἀργυρέοις, Συρίω δὲ μύρω χρύσειʼ ἀλάβαστρα.
All forms of μύρον