Orgyia
δ̓ργυιά
Orgyia (δ̓ργυιά), a Greek measure of length, derived from the human body, was the distance from extremity to extremity of the outstretched arms, whence the name from ὀρέγω. (Xen. Mem. 2.3, 19; Pollux, 2.158.) It was = 6 πόδες or 4 πήχεις, and 1/100 was of the stadium (Hdt. 2.149). It may be expressed nearly enough in English by the word fathom. (Compare MENSURA and the Tables.)
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.