Xerxes Five Million Men

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I must say that in spite of raw size, Herodotus' numbers are very consistent with each other. It really makes me wonder about the word 'myriad'. I wonder if it had the same meaning in his time, or if some later translator erroniously updated the measure originally used that was no longer in use, and used 'myriad' when he should have used something else.