Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Rhodes” in book 9, chapter 7 of Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture:
...ugh Aries or Libra, he makes the gnomon cast a shadow equal to eight ninths of its own length, in the latitude of Rome. In Athens, the shadow is equal to three fourths of the length of the gnomon; at Rhodes to five sevenths; at Tarentum, to nine elevenths; at Alexandria, to three fifths; and so at other places it is found that the shadows of equinoctial gnomons are naturally different from one another.
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| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | Rhodes (Greece) | 424 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| † | Rhodes (Greece) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| Rhodes (Alabama, United States) | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (Louisiana, United States) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (North Carolina, United States) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (Indiana, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (Iowa, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (Michigan, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (Mississippi, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (Montana, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (Nevada, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (New South Wales, Australia) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (North Dakota, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (Ohio, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (South Africa) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (South Carolina, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Rhodes (United Kingdom) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.