05-28-2005, 04:50 AM
murios, -a -on has a few meanings. According to Liddell and Scott. It often means countless, numberless or infinite. Homer and Pindar use it this way. It is the largest number expressed by one word in ancient Greek. It can have this infinite quality about it.
However, when it is used with another definite number, we can take it as 10,000. Both Herodotus and Xenophon use it this way. So there could be a slight bit of confusion in a few instances. However, in the passages under consideration we can be confident that Herodotus meant it to mean 10,000.
I should look and see if Thucydides uses the word. If so, how.
Kevin
However, when it is used with another definite number, we can take it as 10,000. Both Herodotus and Xenophon use it this way. So there could be a slight bit of confusion in a few instances. However, in the passages under consideration we can be confident that Herodotus meant it to mean 10,000.
I should look and see if Thucydides uses the word. If so, how.
Kevin
