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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia..
Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter.
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.)
We embarked, we parted; we were not long in arriving at the north of Coptos, the distance of a schene.
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Schene means (historical) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia..
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Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter.
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