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3.4.

milia passuum miles (1000 paces), the regular way of stating this measure, milia being acc. of extent of space, and passuum part. gen. The passus was the stretch from heel to heel, i.e. from where one heel is raised to where it is set down again, and is reckoned at five Roman feet. A Roman mile (mille passuum) was about 400 feet less than ours; it measures the distance which a soldier would march in a thousand double paces. — CCXL = ducenta quadraginta. Always give the Latin words for numerals in reading the text.

Figure 110. Gallic coin. Obverse: horse. VIRO (perhaps name of a chief), or VIRO[mandui]. Reverse: various devices.


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