The huge fishpond, spoken of by Diodorus as being 7 stadia in circumference (xi.
It has been identified with the Aginis of Nearchus, 500 stadia from Susa, and occupies the site of what was once an extensive and important city.
Its length was thirty stadia (about three and a half English miles); it was constructed of large stones carefully hewn, some of them four feet in length.
Having settled these points, they went to dinner; and after dinner Chirisophus led forward the whole army ten stadia toward the enemy, that he might appear to be fully resolved to march against them on that quarter.
Sailing into the Euxine and advancing 1400 stadia to the north, the longest day is found to consist of fifteen and a half equinoctial hours.
For supposing India to be twenty or thirty thousand stadia [in breadth] it could not be contained in the given space, but if my estimate be taken it is simple enough.
When Stack's transit came in sight, Sandy placed the stadia rod upright so that it could be seen against the skyline and started the slow business of moving it about in response to the surveyor's hand signals.
They named Sandy and three others to carry stadia rods and help them make a careful surface survey of the vicinity where the oil anticline was believed to be.
You'll chip rocks, hold stadia rods, sharpen tools and dig the trucks out of holes on those awful roads.
When news of this reached Dion, who was encamped near Akrae, he aroused his soldiers while it was yet night and marched to the river Anapus, which is ten stadia distant from the city.
Indeed, although he had dug a trench across the plain ten fathoms wide, as many deep, and four hundred stadia long, yet he remained quiet and permitted Cyrus to cross it, and to march close to Babylon itself.
When these messages reached Dion he was still sixty stadia distant from the gates of Syracuse.
When the sailors were wishing to set sail immediately from thence, whether it was that he feared the sea, or had not quite despaired of all trust in Caesar, he landed, and went on foot about a hundred stadia on the road to Rome.
The place where the two armies met is called Kunaxa, and is five hundred stadiadistant from Babylon.
The vessel in Berossus measures five stadia by two, and thus had a length of over three thousand feet and a breadth of more than twelve hundred.
It was excavated to the depth of a hundred feet, and its breadth was a stadium everywhere; it was carried round the whole of the plain, and was ten thousand stadia in length.
As to the population, each of the lots in the plain had to find a leader for the men who were fit for military service, and the size of a lot was a square of ten stadia each way, and the total number of all the lots was sixty thousand.
The second wall, which follows immediately, must certainly belong to the town-wall built by Lysimachus, which was 40 stadia long.
Fréret and Gosselin in regarding both numbers as expressing the same value in stadia of different length (Forbiger, Handbuch der alten Geographie, i.
Eratosthenes and Strabo reckoned 8⅓ stadia to the mile.
It is surmised that the former number originated in a desire to assign in round numbers 700 stadia to a degree.
Now Strabo, in the passage where he says that people commonly estimated eight stadia to the mile, adds that Polybius allowed 8⅓ stadia to the mile (Geogr.
Sometimes it consisted of twenty-four Stadia backwards and forwards, turning twelve times round the goal.
Somewhat higher, at the fords of Thapsacus, the river is four stadiaor 800 yards, almost half an English mile, broad.
The stadia employed by Herodotus in the description of the Euxine, the Bosphorus, &c.
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia{15 stadia is about 2.
Quod abesset: "whatever might be 1800 stadia distant," aberat would have implied that Cic.
Melas rises seven stadia from Orchomenus, and enters the lake Kephisus, otherwise called Kepais.
When Sulla was within two stadia of Fimbria, he sent him orders to give up the army, which he was illegally commanding.
Footnote 248: A mountain in Bœotia and a spring (Tilphussa) about fifty stadia from Haliartus.
Nicias landed at Leon, a place upon the bay of Thapsus, at the distance of only six or seven stadia from Epipolae, took possession of Epipolae, and erected on the summit a fort called Labdalum.
Hence the circuit of 60 stadia from the outer wall does not appear too large.
Next is another bay, on which is situated the ancient Smyrna, at the distance of 20 stadia from the present city.
In sailing towards the west, the sea-coast from Pelusium to the Canobic mouth of the Nile is about 1300 stadia in extent, and constitutes, as we have said, the base of the Delta.
Vestiges of its magnitude still exist, which extend 80 stadia in length.
Footnote 32: The Columna Rhegina, in the narrowest part of the Faro of Messina, one hundred stadia from Rhegium itself, is frequently mentioned in ancient geography.
Footnote 18: Ruscia, the navale Thuriorum, was transferred to the distance of sixtystadia to Ruscianum, Rossano, an archbishopric without suffragans.
As the Esquiline and Viminal Hills were both of easy access from without, a deep trench was dug outside them, and the earth thrown up on the inside, thus forming a terrace of six stadia in length along the inner side of the trench.
This rampart is about seven stadia in length and fifty feet in breadth" (Dionysius, ix.
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