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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 8021048, member: 19463"]μυρίων, the Greek word here translated 10,000 meant 'innumerable' or 'countless', perhaps just 'a lot'. An expert horseman whose abilities allow becoming a team with the fastest and strongest animal will win every time unless, of course, he overestimated those abilities and dies trying. I suspect, by the time this (fictional) story might have happened, Alexander would have had more time 'up' than any living human today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 8021048, member: 19463"]μυρίων, the Greek word here translated 10,000 meant 'innumerable' or 'countless', perhaps just 'a lot'. An expert horseman whose abilities allow becoming a team with the fastest and strongest animal will win every time unless, of course, he overestimated those abilities and dies trying. I suspect, by the time this (fictional) story might have happened, Alexander would have had more time 'up' than any living human today.[/QUOTE]
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