or pace, containing five feet,) and the number of paces contained in each ſtadium being multiplied by eight make up 1000 paces, or 5000 feet.
and by pliny; Pliny ſays, that a ſadium[1] contains 125 Roman paces that is 625 feet.
and Cenſrinos;Cenſorinus ſays, that the Italic ſtadium[2] contains 625 feet, Olympic 600 feet, and the Pythic 1000 feet.
and Frontinus;Frontinus ſays, the ſtadium[3] contains 625 feet and 1000 paces, or 5000 feet, equal to eight ſtadia.
and an anymous writer.The author of the treatiſe de Limitibus[4], and the one de Menſuris [5], ſay, "that the Radium is the leaſt computation of diſtance uſed by travellers; that it contains 125 paces, which are equal to 625 feet, and this laſt ſum multiplied eight times makes a mile, which conſiſts of 5000 feet."
Theſe accounts however are perhaps not more than ſeemingly diſcordant. The Olympic itadiurri, which is underſtood to be meant when nothing is expreſſed to the contrary, was compoſed of 60o Herculean feet, each of which exceeded the common foot, in the ſame proportion as the length of the foot[6] of Hercules did the
- ↑ Plin. Nat. Hift. lib. ii. cap. 32.
- ↑ Cenſorin. cap. xiii.
- ↑ Expoſit. Formarum.—Goeſi Rei Agraria Auctores.
- ↑ Rei Agrariæ Auctores, p. 292.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 321.
- ↑ Nam quum fere confiaret, curriculum ſtadii, quod eil Piſæ ad Jovis Olympii, Herculem pedibus ſuis metatum, idque feeiſſe longum pedes ſexcentos: caters quoque ſtadia. in terra Græcia, ab aliis poſtea inſtituta, pedum quidem eſſe numero ſexcentum, ſed tamen aliquantulurn breviora: facile intellexerit, modum ſpatiumque plant: Herculis, ra-
