[Meaning] the place of the contest. Also a certain part of what is called a mile; for seven [and] a half stadia make a mile. Stadion is also the simple term for a standing firm and not moving. Dio in the 39th [volume] of Roman Histories [writes]: "betrayed by the stadion of the boats, they [the Veneti] were very angry."[1] Meaning betrayed by the standing fast and lack of movement of the boats, they were exceedingly wroth.
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] stadios chiton, [meaning] one that reaches to the feet, a full-sized one; [the phrase appears] in Callimachus in Hecale.[2]
And Aristophanes [writes]: "I ask of you only this one thing -- that of the Greeks I be best by a hundred stadia."[3]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] stadi/a| ma/xh ["fight in close"]: "no-one withstood him in close combat."[4]
[Note] that the seven [and] a half stadia make one mile, and the ten miles have 80 stadia. Otherwise: [note] that the stadion has 600 feet, and the mile 4200 feet, and the plethron 100 feet, and the aroura 50 feet,[5] and the foot sixteen daktyloi, and the cubit a foot and a half.
In the Epigrams: "in stadia from Isthmos and in Nemea."[6]
[Note] that Philippides the day-runner completed 1500 stadia in one night.[7] And look under Hippias.[8]