στάδιον: Difference between revisions

|txtha=σταδιου, plural τά σταδια (Tdf.), and οἱ σταδιοι (so (Tr [[text]] WH [[text]]); Tdf.); Relz G L WH marginal [[reading]]); Tdf. Proleg., p. 117; WH s Appendix, p. 157); Krüger, § 19,2, 1) (ΣΤΑΩ, [[ἵστημι]]; [[hence]], [[properly]], 'established,' [[that]] [[which]] stands [[fast]], a 'stated' [[distance]], a '[[fixed]] [[standard]]' of [[length]]), a stadium, i. e.<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[measure]] of [[length]] comprising 600 Greek feet, or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces (Pliny, h. n. 2,23 (21), 85), [[hence]], [[one]]-[[eighth]] of a Roman [[mile]] (i. e. 606 3/4English feet ([[about]] 15 miles [[less]] [[than]] [[one]]-[[fifth]] of a kilometer)); the [[space]] or [[distance]] of [[that]] [[length]] (A. V. a [[furlong]]): (Tr [[text]] WH [[text]]); a [[race-course]], i. e. [[place]] in [[which]] contests in [[running]] were held; the [[one]] [[who]] outstripped the [[rest]], and reached the [[goal]] [[first]], receiving the [[prize]]: A. V. [[race]]). Courses of [[this]] [[description]] were to be [[found]] in [[most]] of the larger Greek cities, and were, [[like]] [[that]] at [[Olympia]], 600 Greek feet in [[length]]. Cf. Winer s RWB, [[under]] the [[word]] Sigdium; Grundt in Schenkel, [[under]] the [[word]], vol. v., 375f; (BB. DD. [[under]] the [[word]] <TOPIC:Games>).