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 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 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

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 basement platform of the Belus tower was, Herodotus tells us, a stade, or rather more than 200 yards, each way.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George