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μῡριάς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μῡριάς μυριάδος

Structure: μυριαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a number of ten thousand, a myriad, often indefinitely, of countless numbers

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πεσεῖται ἐκ τοῦ κλίτουσ σου χιλιὰσ καὶ μυριὰσ ἐκ δεξιῶν σου, πρὸσ σὲ δὲ οὐκ ἐγγιεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 90:7)
  • ταῦτα μὲν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ἕτερα εἴποι τισ ἂν οἱο͂σ σὺ κατηγορῶν ἐν οὕτωσ ἀμφιλαφεῖ τῇ ὑποθέσει καὶ μυρίασ τὰσ ἀφορμὰσ παρεχομένῃ· (Lucian, Apologia 19:1)
  • καὶ ὅμωσ αὐτοσχέδια ὄντα οὕτω τοὺσ ἀνοήτουσ πέπεικεν, ὥστε οὐδεὶσ ἡμῖν οὐδὲ θύειν βούλεται, εἰδὼσ ὅτι, κἂν μυρίασ ἑκατόμβασ παραστήσῃ, ὅμωσ τὴν τύχην πράξουσαν τὰ μεμοιραμένα καὶ ἃ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἑκάστῳ ἐπεκλώσθη. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 13:4)
  • τοιγάρτοι μυρίασ ἤδη τοῖσ τραγῳδοδιδασκάλοισ ἀφορμὰσ εἰσ τὰ δράματα τὸ τοιοῦτο παρέσχηται, τοὺσ Λαβδακίδασ καὶ τοὺσ Πελοπίδασ καὶ τὰ τούτοισ παραπλήσια· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 1:4)
  • ἅπαντα γὰρ δόξησ ἕνεκα γενόμενοσ καὶ μυρίασ τροπὰσ τραπόμενοσ, τὰ τελευταῖα ταῦτα καὶ πῦρ ἐγένετο· (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 1:2)

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