Word: stadion
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Dates: during 1887-1887
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...foot races at the Olympic games were of three lengths - namely, once over the course or "stadion," as it was called, and which became the unit of the Greek road measure, being 600 Greek feet, equal to 606 feet 9 inches English: twice over it - that is, from one end to the other and back again; and the third 12, 20, or 24 times over, for the various reports are not clear as to which it was. Taking the longest distance, this would only be 14.562 English feet, or just over two and three-quarter miles; and yet when...