schene

plural schenes · alternative schoene · alternative schœne

1. historicalAn Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.

   We embarked, we parted; we were not long in arriving at the north of Coptos, the distance of a schene.

   1917, Charles Francis Horne, The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, volume 2

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   Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter.

   1786, Mr. Savary, “Letters on Egypt”, in The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 62, page 440

   With regard to the extent of this lake, we recur again to the testimonies above cited: Herodotus says, that the circumference of the lake Mœris was 3600 stadia, or sixty schenes, which, says the historian, form the dimensions of the maritime base of Egypt, (seventy-five leagues.)

   1817, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, volume 15