"mile" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The road across the desert from Coptos was 258 Roman miles long, or eleven days' journey.
- Three hundred years ago three legions would have patrolled this area, with a fortress every Roman mile.
- Pliny gives the circuitus reported by Pytheas as 4875 Roman miles.
- The most important was that there was a town about twelve Roman miles away.
- In ancient Rome the league was standardized to be 1.5 Roman miles.
- The ground around the castle had been cleared and plowed for a Roman mile.
- They marked the distance between two towns, and were placed at intervals of one Roman mile.
- It is a Turinese suburb taking its name from the distance from that city, which amounted to seven Roman miles.
- It covered a total distance of about 1,120 km (696 miles / 746 Roman miles).
- Relay stations were located along the roads every seven to twelve Roman miles, and tended to grow into a village or trading post.
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