This text is part of:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
[4] Verum quoniam familiariter a nobis tu quoque, Silvine, praecepta mensurarum desideras, obsequar voluntati tuae, cum eo, ne dubites id opus geometrarum magis esse quam rusticorum, desque veniam, si quid in eo fuerit erratum, cuius scientiam mihi non vindice Sed ut ad rem redeam, modus omnis areae pedali mensura comprehenditur, qui 1digitorum est XVI. 2 3 4 5 6 [p. 6] Pes multiplicatus in passus et actus et climata et iugera et stadia centuriasque mox etiam in maiora spatia procedit. Passus pedes habet V. Actus minimus (ut ait M. Varro) latitudinis 7pedes quattuor, longitudinis habet pedes CXX. Clima quoquo versus
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.