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μυριετής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυριετής μυριετές

Structure: μυριετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/tos

Sense

  1. of, years: of countless years

Examples

  • τρόποσ ἔθρεψεν τοὺσ πρώτουσ ταῦτα ἐννοήσαντασ διὰ τὸ κάλλοσ τῆσ θερινῆσ ὡρ́ασ, ἣν Αἴγυπτόσ τε Συρία θ’ ἱκανῶσ κέκτηται, φανεροὺσ μὲν ὡσ ἔποσ εἰπεῖν ἀστέρασ ἀεὶ σύμπαντασ καθορῶντασ, ἅτε νεφῶν καὶ ὑδάτων ἀπόπροσθεν ἀεὶ τοῦ κόσμου κεκτημένουσ, ὅθεν καὶ πανταχόσε καὶ δεῦρ’ ἐξήκει, βεβασανισμένα χρόνῳ μυριετεῖ τε καὶ ἀπείρῳ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 96:1)

Synonyms

  1. of

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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