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Definition of roman mile

  • An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1,000 paces . Indirectly standardized to 5,000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1,481 meters ; compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet

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