Lexicographical Neighbors of Milliare
Literary usage of Milliare
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Revolution in Measurement: Western European Weights and Measures Since the by Ronald Edward Zupko (1990)
"A minute of arc was called a milliare or mi lle; one-tenth of a milliare, a
stadium or stade; one-tenth stadium or 1/100 ..."
2. Life and work at the Great pyramid during ... 1865 by Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819-1900, Charles Piazzi Smyth (1867)
"... because the Greek ' Stadium consisted of six hundred Greek Feet; ' and a Roman
milliare, or Mile, of a thousand of ' the greater Roman Passus, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1794)
"Hence the minute of a great circle on our globe is equal to a milliare, ...
the milliare or minute will be equal to 1093,633 yards, and the Metre, ..."
4. Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves ...: Many of which are Now First by John Greaves, Thomas Birch (1737)
"... of fix hundred Greek Feet; and a Roman milliare, or Mile, ... eight Greek
Stadia were equal to a Roman milliare. But it is probable, ..."
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