LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
Allen & Greenough · Prosody › Miscellaneous

§636. Measures of Value, etc

The Roman Measures of Length are the following: —

  • 12 inches (unciae) =1 Roman Foot ( pēs: 11.65 English inches).
  • 1 1/2 Feet=1 Cubit (cubitum).—2 1/2 Feet=1 Step (gradus).
  • 5 Feet=1 Pace (passus).—1000 Paces ( mīlle passuum)= 1 Mile.

The Roman mile was equal to 4850 English feet.

The iūgerum, or unit of measure of land, was an area of 240 (Roman) feet long and 120 broad; a little less than 2/3 of an English acre.

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). 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.