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μυριοπλάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυριοπλάσιος μυριοπλάσιον

Structure: μυριοπλασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. times as many as

Examples

  • ἴσμεν γὰρ δήπου ὅτι μυριοπλάσια ἡμῶν ἅπαντα ἔχει ἡ πᾶσα πόλισ, ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ, ὁποῖον ἂν τῶν οἰκετῶν κελεύσῃσ πριάμενόν τί σοι ἐξ ἀγορᾶσ ἐνεγκεῖν, οὐδεὶσ ἀπορήσει, ἀλλὰ πᾶσ εἰδὼσ φανεῖται ὅποι χρὴ ἐλθόντα λαβεῖν ἕκαστα. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 23:1)
  • μυριοπλάσια γὰρ ἂν κακὰ ποιήσειεν ἄνθρωποσ κακὸσ θηρίου. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 87:2)

Synonyms

  1. times as many as

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

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