schene — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.

   Usage

   • Historical

   Examples

   Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter.

   More examples (1)

   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.