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Myriad

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A named ten-thousand in East Asian counting (wàn) and a Greek “countless” word in English reception. Not a vague “lots,” and not a thousand.

Also known as Wan · Ten thousand · 10000

Hellenic religion

  • Myriad appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus’s Greek counting speech uses myriad for ten-thousand and countless host counts. A named myriad in that traveler’s speech, not thousand and not a Chinese 萬 dump alone.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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