Decempeda
Decempeda a pole ten feet long, used by the agrimensores in measuring land. (Cic. pro Mil. 27, § 74; Phil. 14.4.10; Hor. Carm. 2.15.14.) Thus we find that the agrimensores were sometimes called decempedatores (Cic. Phil. 13.18, § 37). The decempeda was in fact the standard land-measure. [ACTUS; AGRIMENSORES.]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.