Meaning of schoene | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“The schoene appears to be about 4 Roman miles; but has certainly no connection with that mile, being a Persian measure⟳.”

“This distance of 1000 orgyas was taken as an itinerary unit, and called a schoene.”

“The length of the country along shore, according to the bounds that we assign to Egypt, namely from the Plinthinetic gulf to Lake Serbonis, which extends along the base⟳ of Mount⟳ Casius, is sixty schoenes.”

“For, in describing the dimensions of Egypt, he gives them in schœnes, and then reduces them to stades, at the rate of 60 to a schœne, Euterpe 6 and 9.”

“Each schœne, comprising 60 stades, is equal to 19,636 English feet, or 12,000 Oriental cubits.”

“Are we to measure⟳ our wisdom by the Persian Schœne, or by the cubits of a child, and to write⟳ so imperfectly as not to write⟳ at all but to copy⟳ the midday shadows, or lines which meet⟳ right in front of you, whose lengths are foreshortened and which show⟳ themselves in glimpses rather than plainly, being recognized only by certain of their extremities?”

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