An ancient Roman unit of distance, literally, “a thousand passus,” where the
passus is a unit conceptually equal to a pace of two steps. Somewhere between 1471 and 1485 meters.
Y. Janvier.
Les problèmes de métrologies dans l'étude de la cartographie antique.
Latomus, vol 52, pages 3-22 (1993).
Omert J. Schrier.
Hannibal, the Rhone and the “Island”: Some philological and metrological issues.
Mnemosyne, vol. 59, no. 4, pages 501- 524 (October
2006).
See section 1.3.4.
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