stade
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At first, the festival lasted only one day and had only one contest, a race called the stade.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The figure of 252,000 Egyptian “short” stades is closest to the true circumference of the earth; even the Attic stade would have gotten Eratosthenes within 15 percent.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
The most pedantic difficulty—and the one that has undoubtedly spilled the most scholarly ink—is the question of which version of the stade Eratosthenes used in his work.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
The "stadium" is the famous foot-race at Olympia, 606 3/4 English feet in length, run on a course also called the "Stadion," which was exactly a stade long.
From Hellenica by Henry Graham Dakyns
Stade upon stade, and farsang upon farsang, the ploughed furrows stretched away to the west and south; the corn standing already green and high, and the fig-trees putting out their broad green leaves.
From Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
