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Dio's ‘Eighth Half-Stade’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

A. W. Lintott
A. W. Lintott
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University of Aberdeen
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The Classical Review , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1971 , pp. 5 - 6
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1971

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page 5 note 2 Views summarized in de Martino, Storia delta Costituzione Romana, iv. 129.

page 5 note 3 For the extension of the legal limit of the city outside the pomoerium cf. Tabula Heracleensis, 1. 20; Gai. Inst. iv. 104.

page 5 note 4 Staatsr. i3. 68–9, esp. 69 n. 4.

page 5 note 5 Hultsch, , Griechische und römische Metrologic, 57 ff.Google Scholar; R.-E., Stadion (2. iii. 1930 ff.).

page 5 note 6 Note also 750 stades in Dio xlvi. 44. 4 (clearly 100 miles), 3,750 in xxxvii. 17. 7 (the distance of Cicero's exile from Rome, 500 miles in Plut. Cic. 32, though the text of Cic. Att. iii. 4 has quadringenta).

page 6 note 1 Rustics gave the bipalium (double mattock) the name of sestertium, because it provided a measure of two and a half feet (Col. Arb. i. 5; cf. R.R. iii. 5. 3).

page 6 note 2 De Figuris Numerorum 16–7 (ii, p. 411 Keil). On Claudius Didymus see Suidas s.v.