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

Both of these speak of a base a stade, or about 606 feet, square, which would give a circumference of no less than 2,424 feet—not much less than half a mile.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

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