"Roman mile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... * * * [Transcriber's note: the preceding four *s are actually four instances of the "infinity" symbol (like a digit 8 rotated horizontally)]passum. The Roman mile, mille passuum, was 142 yards less than the ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato
... Omar, the second Khalif, who died A. D. 644. This great mosque covers the whole consecrated ground of the Jewish temple, and constitutes almost a square of 760 toises, or one Roman mile in circumference. ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon |
