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thanks to all for hints and suggestions received. I have enough
material to study the matter.
vladimiro
Il giorno 13/ott/09, al
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There is also the following, taken from Smith's 1890 _Dictionary of
Greek and Roman Antiquities_
(http://www.ancientlibrary.com/s
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The Roman mile consisted of one thousand passus which equaled 5000 pedes. The
'm.p.' (contemporary abbreviation) measured 1480 mete
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David,
I forgot the issue of what constitutes a stride. I think that a stride
is actually two paces, i.e. the distance covered w
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I was unable to find anything too precise in the measure of "large
paces," but from most of what I see the phrase usually refers t
