Meaning of schoene | Babel Free

Examples

“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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