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184 latter is undefined, he asssigns 150 stadia only, or 18¾ roman miles, a ditance ufficiently near to Vegetius's calculation.

The above facts and arguments will, I trut, prove that, Where the tadium is mentioned, and no pecification of a different meaure appears, the Olympic tadium of eight to a mile is undertood; epecially in the earlier writers, as Herodotus, Xenophon, Diodorus, Strabo, Arrian, and even Pauianias. APPENDIX.