Passus (length)
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A passus is an ancient Roman unit of length that is 2 gradii. One passus is 1.62 yards or 1.48 meters. There are 1000 passus in one mille, and a mille was sometimes referred to as a mille passus.
A passus was roughly the pace step of a single legionary.
[edit] See also
- Ancient Roman weights and measures
- Pes (length)
- Pace (length) (This has overlapped this article?)
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