- step, a
distance of 2½ Gr**** feet. The double pace (βῆμα διπλοῦν, bḗma
diploûn), meanwhile, was
similar to the
Roman unit,
comprising 5 Gr**** feet. The...
- 01 ft) foot
haploun bēma ἁπλοῦν βῆμα 2+1⁄2
podes 0.77 m (2.5 ft) step bēma,
diploun bēma βῆμα, διπλοῦν βῆμα 5
podes 1.54 m (5.1 ft) pace
orgyia ὄργυια 6 podes...
- diaírei kaì basíleue "divide and rule" Διπλοῦν ὁρῶσιν οἱ μαθόντες γράμματα.
Diploûn horôsin hoi mathóntes grámmata. "Those who know the
letters see double...
- the Erechtheum,
American Journal of Archaeology, 1921, p.134. 1.26.5.
diploun...oikema, "the
building is double" W.H.S. Jones, Pausanias, Harvard, 1918...
- bêma haploûn (βῆμα ἁπλοῦν) 2+1⁄2 0.787 (=English pace)
Double pace bêma
diploûn (βῆμα διπλοῦν) 5 1.574 (=Roman pace)
Simple Orguia (Simple) Fathom...