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An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also mile from Latin mille, 1000). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.

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Roman mile

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An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also "mile" from Latin mille, "1000"). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.

Japanese Meaning

古代ローマにおける、1000歩（mille passus）に基づく旅程距離単位。 / 紀元前29年にアグリッパによって、5000ローマ尺として標準化された（間接的な標準化）。 / 現代の換算では約1481メートルに相当する。