Talk:Schoenus

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And it is also a name of a plant genus. SyP (talk) 16:38, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Herodotus 2.6 "schoine, which is an Egyptian measure, is equal to sixty furlongs" 2.149 "The measure of its circuit is three thousand six hundred furlongs (being sixty schoines), and this is the same number of furlongs as the extent of Egypt itself along the sea." (furlong = stadion)

Pliny the Elder 5.11 "Other writers say that it is forty schoeni in length, making the schoenum to be thirty stadia"

Strabo 17.1.24 "according to Artemidorus, the voyage up the river is twenty-eight schoeni, that is, eight hundred and forty stadia, reckoning the schoenus as thirty stadia. When I made the voyage, however, they used different measures at different times when they gave the distances, so that even forty stadia, or still more, was the accepted measure of the schoenus, according to the place. That the measure of the schoenus among the Aegyptians in unstable is made clear by Artemidorus himself in his next statement; for from Memphis to Thebai each schoenus, he says, is one hundred and twenty stadia, and from Thebai to Syene sixty, and, as one sails up from Pelusium to the same vertex of the Delta, the distance, he says, is twenty-five schoeni, that is, seven hundred and fifty stadia, using the same measure" Pilot Pirx (talk) 18:01, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pliny the Elder 12.53 "schoenus patet Eratosthenis ratione stadia XL" (Eratosthenes says: schoenus = 40 stadia). Pilot Pirx (talk) 10:55, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are schoines,schoeni,schoenum,schoenus,stadion all of the same base

Herodotus is speaking of an Egyptian aroura or thousand, mia chillia, 10 chains of 100 orgyia (6 pous) a square 600 pous to a side and saying 600 pous is the Greek stadion so that 60 stadions or furlongs make a schoenus.

Pliny the elder is speaking of a measure of lake Moeris, an artificial lake south of Alexandria which having receeded from illahoun has lost half of its width from the sixty stadia it was originally to 30 stadia [1]. Thus the same stadion as Herodotus.

Eratosthenes may be using a different stadia with 700 stadia to a degree rather than 600 based not on a s stadion but the Egyptian minute of march 300 royal cubits or 157.5m x 700 stadia being 110.25 km to a degree.142.0.102.213 (talk) 23:58, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]