number
Hundred
A round hundred in decimal speech. Hosts, percentages, and “hundred gods” lists use the scale differently.
Hellenic religion
Hundred appears in Hellenic religion.
Herodotus’s histories count by hundreds among armies, offerings, and measures. A named hundred in that traveler’s speech, not a percentage dump and not myriad as the countless class.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Norse tradition
Hundred appears in Norse tradition.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning numbers Valhalla’s doors at five hundred and forty, wide enough for eight hundred einherjar abreast. A named hundred-scale in that prose, not valhalla as the hall already walked and not a bare percent dump.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Hundred is used in Drachma.
In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, peseri baked in the sun is taken at one hundred drachmas with white resin at seventy-five drachmas, then melted together — the drachma weights that hundred-part peseri charge.
from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century
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Hundred is used in The Sun.
In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, peseri is first baked in the sun, then taken at one hundred drachmas with white resin to melt into varnish — the sun does that preparatory bake before the hundred-drachma melt.
from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century
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Eighty is used in Hundred.
In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, from eighty feet to one hundred feet the length divided into five parts produces the right width for the alae — eighty-to-hundred is the length band of that alae measure.
from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914
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Seventy is used in Hundred.
In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, one hundred drachmas of sun-baked peseri are melted with seventy-five of white resin — seventy and hundred are the paired drachma charges of that varnish melt.
from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century
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Talmud is associated with Hundred.
In the Jewish Encyclopedia, critical treatment of the Talmud is prepared by more than four hundred scholars — four hundred names the Talmud editorial corps size.
from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906
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sources
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.
- Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.
- On Divers Arts · Theophilus Presbyter
Theophilus, On Divers Arts (De diversis artibus / Schedula diversarum artium).
- De Architectura · Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation)
Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris Hicky Morgan (1914).
- The Jewish Encyclopedia · Isidore Singer et al.
Isidore Singer et al., The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906).