Salmas. ad Solin. p. 521. צריZeri לטLat.STADIUM, a Furlong, a Measure of Length, which consisted of one hundred and twenty-five geometrical Paces. Eight Furlongs make a Mile, and three Miles make a common League. See the Table of Measures.Stadium is also taken for the Place where they perform’d their publick Exercises of Running. St. Paul alludes to these Spectacles and these Exercises, when he 1 Cor. ix. 24.says, They which run in a Race (in Stadio) run all, but one receiveth the Prize. These Places were call’d Stadia, because they were distinguish’d into Courses or Distances by certain resting Places; so that some of the Racers run but one Distance, some two or more, each according to his Strength.
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