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THE MEASURE

OF THE

HE Stadium is allowed to be a meaure of Grecian original though well known, and in ue, among the Romans.

It had its name, as ome ay, from the top at the end of the coure for foot-races, at Pia in Elis, which coure was of this length. Others derive it from a word which implies the pace a man was able to run without taking breath.

This meaure was not uniform, it being acknowledged that there were tadia of different lengths.

The Olympic tadium however, of which I mean principally to treat, appears to have been in the mot general ue as an itinerary meaure,