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stădĭum , ii, n. (
I.masc. collat. form, acc. plur. stadios, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 15 med.; gen. plur. usu. stadium; “but stadiorum,Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 247; 4, 1, 2, § 5; 4, 12, 24, § 75), = στάδιον.
I. In gen., a stade, stadium, a distance of 125 paces, or 625 Roman feet, equal to 606 feet 9 inches English; “it was an eighth part of a milliarium, or somewhat less than an eighth of an English mile,Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 85; Col. 5, 1, 6; Censor. de Die Nat. 13; Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 1; id. Ac. 2, 31, 100; id. Fam. 16, 2; Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 496, 1; Plin. 2, 21, 19, § 83; 2, 108, 112, § 247.—
II. In partic., a racecourse for foot - racing, of a stadium in length (among the Greeks): “qui stadium currit,Cic. Off. 3, 10, 42: “ut in stadio cursores exclamant,id. Tusc. 2, 23, 56; cf. Suet. Dom. 5; Eutr. 7, 15.—
B. Trop., a contest, = contentio (perh. only in the foll. passages): “in stadium artis rhetoricae prodire,Auct. Her. 4, 3, 4: “in stadio laudis versari,Rutil. Lup. 2, p. 77 (p. 139 Frotscher; but in Cic. Brut. 64, 230, the correct read. is in studio laudis).
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 16.2
    • Suetonius, Domitianus, 5
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.83
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.85
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.5
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.1
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.23
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.10
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 5.1.6
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