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ON THE MEASURE OF THE GREEK STADIUM
latter is undefined, he asssigns 150 stadia only, or 18¾ roman miles, a diſtance ſufficiently near to Vegetius's calculation.
The above facts and arguments will, I truſt, prove that, Where the ſtadium is mentioned, and no ſpecification of a different meaſure appears, the Olympic ſtadium of eight to a mile is underſtood; eſpecially in the earlier writers, as Herodotus, Xenophon, Diodorus, Strabo, Arrian, and even Pauianias.
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