In ancient Greece, a unit of length, in concept the distance from the elbow
to the first joint of the fingers (the word also means “elbow”), = 20
dactyloi. 
Its magnitude varied with variation in the size of the pous.
| Attic | 37.0 cm |
| Olympic | 40.0 cm |
| Pergamene | 41.3 cm |
| Aeginetan | 41.6 cm |
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