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 Dakyns, Henry Graham

But even the estimate of Ctesias, assuming the stade to be its usual length, would imply an area of about 100 sq. m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various