μυρίος

myrios

numberless, countless, infinite

Appears 18 times across Aristotle's works.

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Metaphysics 6
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Book Α 1
Chapter 9 990a33–993a10

990b27
Book Γ 1
Chapter 4 1005b35–1009a5

1007a11
Book Μ 2
Chapter 4 1078b7–1079b11

1079a24

Chapter 9 1085a3–1086b13

1085a14
Book Ν 2
Chapter 1 1087a29–1088b13

1088b11

Chapter 6 1092b26–1093b29

1093a21
De Mundo 3
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Chapter 3 392b14–394a6

392b17
Chapter 5 396a33–397b6

397a27
Chapter 6 397b7–401a11

399a34
Politics 2
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Book II 1
Chapter 9 1269a29–1271b19

1270a37
Book III 1
Chapter 9 1280a7–1281a10

1280b22
On the Heavens 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 12 291b24–293a14

292a29
Generation of Animals 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 1 731b18–735a28

732b18
On Generation and Corruption 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 2 315a26–317a31

316a22
History of Animals 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 1 486a5–488b28

488a12
Physiognomonics 1
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Chapter 1 805a1–806a18

805b27
Poetics 1
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Chapter 21 1457a31–1458a17

1457b11
Sophistical Refutations 1
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Chapter 17 175a31–176b28

176a10

Dictionary (LSJ)

μυρίος [ῐ], α, ον (ος, ον APl. 16.40 (Crin.)), A. 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, in finite, 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, μυριῳ 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 12.63.37, 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. 3p.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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