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{ame: to v 0 nn%w dhim mh 3 (rtv, they call a Cubism an Ulna.

- Pliny takes them for different Measures; for he speaks of a Plata-nus, 1 5 Cubits long, but in thickness quatuor Ulna ; by an Ulnahe understands here, the length from the tip of one finger to thetip of the other, when a Man spreads his Arms. 4 For, speakingof a Fir-Tree, he expresteth it thus. Arboris ejus crajjitudo quatuorhominum ulnas compleUentium impkbat ; mox ibid. Maxima Ce-

drus in Cypro traditur ad undeciremem Demetrii succisa, centum trigintapedum • Crajjttudinis vero ad trium hominum complexum. This Ulnathe Greeks express by oqyvid, about 6 Feet: so that the Tree was130 Roman Feet high, and 18 Feet in Circumference. b Callus*takes Ulna in the fame fense.

A Cubit was reckon’d by Arijlotle the fourth part of the heightof a well-proportion’d human body. For he faith a Man is AHmQv S'inxv TiTgy. 7 tY>xVi or a walking Animal with two feet, andfour Cubits (above 6 Feet) high. There are several that past forhuman Creatures who are excluded by this definition.

PaJJus, so called a pajjis pedibus , is a space of 5 Feet long. Plinyuses this Measure frequently in describing the distances of places.Centenaria and Millenana, when' join d to Substantives, paffus isoften understood, as Porticus Centenarii * that is Porticos of 100paces.

£ Decempeda was a sort of measuring Rod for taking the dimen-sions of Buildings, Area, Land , Ways, Meadows, Mines , &c. andsignified the fame. thing as Pertica taken as a Measure of length.From hence came Decempedator for a Surveyor used by d Cicero.c Decempeda was sometimes used for the Measure likewise, by theseme Author. f The common word for a Surveyor was Finitor,and. the Law word Agrimensor.

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* Lib. 16. cap. Z2.. Antandri Platanus etiamcircumdolatis lateribus restibilis sponte facta, vi-tæque reddita, longitudine XV Cubitorum,craffitudine quatuor Ulnarum. a Lib. i6.cap. 40. b Lib. 4. cap. z. Si ambas manusexplices a pectore, in lineam rectam, ulna dici-tur. £ Palladius lib. 2. tit. 12. d Philip. 13.Cavebat etiam C. Antonio, qui fuerat æquilfi

mus agri privati & public! decempedator.«Cicero Philip. 14. Quam jam peritus & ca!-lidus decempeda sua saxa diviserit. f Plautus.in Pœnulo. Nunc regiones, limites, confinia.determinabo: ejus rei ego sum factus finitor .*Et Cicero contra Trullum. Finitorem mittat,,ratum sit, quod finitor uni illi, a quo naUEiserit, renunciaverit.