[Meaning] worth ten thousand amphoras.
Aristophanes [writes]: "where might I lay hold of a ten-thousand-amphora word, with which to greet you? For I had nothing at home."[1]
*muria/mforon: muri/wn a)mfore/wn a)/cion. *)aristofa/nhs: po/qen a)nala/boimi r(h=ma muria/mforon, o(/tw| prosei/pw s'; ou) ga\r ei)=xon oi)/koqen.
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is the neuter accusative (and nominative and vocative) singular form of the specially-made-up two-ending adjective
muria/mforos, -on; see generally LSJ s.v.
Like other compounds with
myrios (and indeed
myrios itself), the sense is not so much that of a literal, numerical 10,000 as of an inconceivably large number; cf.
mu 1434.
[1] An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Peace 521-2 (web address 1), with scholion. Trygaeus expresses his wonderment at the appearance of Peace, in the form of a statue, with attendants Holiday and Cornucopia.
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