Weights and Measures , &c. 65

fflay be seen in the chapter of Roman measures. He translatesKv^c/ifAig Teorctgaxovlogyviog, pyramis quadragenarum ulnarum.

The Pillars of the Cyzicenian Temple were in circumference fourUlna or Ogyvicu, and j o Cubits high, all of one Stone.

The Circumference of the Pillars of Herod’s Temple was zd$yvicu.

Strabo tells you of vines in Margiana, in circumference at theroot, of the ogyviou of two men.

Hesychius mentions yvm a measure equal to the ogyvioi.

TlhiQgov or 7rzte()gov is a measure of ioo Foot according to Sui-das, Xyu 7 ro^ j/. In the Epitome of Strabo, it is reckon’d £x)njudigioiitS tetchy, the 6 th part of a Stadium.

From comes an adjective signifying a

hundred feet long; as in Herodotus, QoIvikols 7r?\e&fetingPalm Trees ioo feet long, which he faith grew in Ba-bylon. And Strabo mentions a Dragon about that length.

also signifies a Jugerum Or Roman Acre. Hesychius faith,fjLirpQV yrts, o r. e. a measure of land. Plutarch in

the life of Camillus calls ttAsO^, what Liny calls Jugerum. SoLaurentius Valla translates it from Herodotus.

''A?8M, according to Suidas , is a measore of 5 o Feet. And itsignifies likewiso a field, or manured ground.

2 rctch© j , according to Herodotus, lib. z. is a measore equal to100 ogyviou, or of 600 Grecian Feet. The fame Author faithit is 400 Cubits, which is the fame thing. From sd.S'i®’ comes?clS , icu© j j in Strabo Ttvqy.fJLio'ig to v^/og TO.J'icuoh signify Pyramidsof the height of a Stadium , or 600 Feet.

The City Nina , which in the Scripture is called Nineveh , wasin Circumference 4 8 o Stadia, according to Diodorus Siculus: whichcomes near to 5 5 English Miles, reckoning 600 Grecian Feet toa Stadium. The fame was the circumference of Babylon. Strabolib. 1 6. faith that Belus’s Sepulcher was a Stadium in height, and in,other every dimensions which if true, it far exceeded the greatest ofthe Ægyptian Pyramids.

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