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Headword:
*di/aulos
Adler number: delta,806
Translated headword: double-stretch
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a place two stades in length. Or a measure of 200 cubits.[1]
A 'double-stretch' [is] also the long circuit.
"[Justinian's headless body seemed] to make these veritable double-stretches."[2]
Greek Original:*di/aulos: o( dista/dios to/pos. h)\ me/tron ph/xewn s1#. *di/aulos kai\ h( makra\ peri/odos. tou/tous dh\ tou\s makrou\s diau/lous poiei=sqai.
Notes:
See also
delta 807.
[1] There seems to be an error (of transmission?) here: the second distance is only approx. a quarter of the first.
[2] A close approximation (the verb should be active
poiei=n, not
poiei=sqai) of
Procopius,
Secret History 12.21.
Keywords: athletics; biography; definition; historiography; imagery; science and technology
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 January 2004@21:03:38.
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