What was the measurement system of Ancient Rome: Length, Mass, Temperature and Time (especially length)?
Latin measurement system
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mille passum?
Passum is Raisin Wine not a measurement system?
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mille passus = "a thousand paces" ~= 5000 feet = 1 mile. Yes, I know the modern mile is 5280 feet.
It can also be written as mille passuum = "a thousand (of) paces."
But tell us more about raisin wine.
mille passus = "a thousand paces" ~= 5000 feet = 1 mile. Yes, I know the modern mile is 5280 feet.
It can also be written as mille passuum = "a thousand (of) paces."
But tell us more about raisin wine.
Possums are confined to the southern hemisphere.
How about this page?
You can find confirmation of the use of some of the measurements here in part 24.
uncia is inch
How about this page?
You can find confirmation of the use of some of the measurements here in part 24.
uncia is inch
That’s more strictly an opossum.Nikolaos dixit:
If I were more awake, I’d have made a pun on possum by now.
Quoniam non híc in Australiá habitas, «opossum» dicere opotes.Matthaeus dixit:
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) calls them possums. It's overwhelmingly common.
That is true. The English word "mile" is derived from the Latin word "mille" in reference to the Roman mile or mille passum. The current measurement of 5,280 feet to a statue land mile comes the English making the Roman mile conform to the furlough system used in agriculture. (A furlough is in reference how much land a pair of oxen could plow within one day.)
Is that the American equivalent to an English furlong?
Edit: Below is a description of "furlough" via the dictionary. I'm just wondering if "furlough" is an Americanized version of "furlong" hence why I can't seem to find the oxen reference in the dictionary using "furlough"
Furlough:
a. A leave of absence or vacation, especially one granted to a member of the armed forces.
b. A usually temporary layoff from work.
c. A leave of absence from prison granted to a prisoner.
2. The papers or documents authorizing a leave: The soldiers had their furloughs in their breast pockets.
tr.v. fur·loughed, fur·lough·ing, fur·loughs
1. To grant a leave to.
2. To lay off (workers).
He surely meant 'furlong'. A furlough isn't related to measurement at all.