A unit of itinerant distance in the ancient Mediterranean. Also romanized as schoenus.
Wilhelm Schwarz.
Der Schoinos bei den Aegyptern, Griechen und Römern. Eine metrologische und
geographische Untersuchung.
Berliner Studien für classiche Philologie und Archaeologie. Volume
15, part 3.
Berlin: S. Calvary and Co., 1894.
Reprinted in facsimile by Kraus in 1975.
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