Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Acaina

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Acaina

（ἄκαινα). A measure of length, equivalent to ten Greek feet. It was originally a pointed stick that finally came, like our rod, perch, or pole, and like the German Stange, to be used as a measuring-rod. See Acna.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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