Note 047
From Chapter 17 of the Decline & Fall

Tournefort (Lettre XII.) computes the Atmeidan at four hundred paces. If he means geometrical paces of five feet each, it was three hundred toises in length, about forty more than the great circus of Rome. See d'Anville, Mesures Itineraires, p. 73.

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