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The parasang in Xenophon, as here, measures 30 stades or four Roman miles, thus corresponding to the modern Persian ‘far sang’ = 3 1/2 to 4 English miles. Other writers estimated it at 40 or 60 stades (Strabo 518), and Agathias (A. D. 570) as low as 21 stades.

Μεμνόνια: cf. ii. 106 n.

ἐπ᾽ ἡμέρῃ ἑκάστῃ. In ch. 54. 2 only three days are allowed for the 540 stades from Ephesus to Sardis; and in iv. 101, 200 stades = 25 Roman miles is taken as a day's journey, but the Royal road is through hilly country, and the 150 stades (20 miles) may be intended as a day's march for an army.

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