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- noun Alternative form of
plethron .
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Examples
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But the entrance into Greece through Trachis, in the narrowest part, is no more than a half _plethrum_ in width: however, the narrowest part of the country is not in this spot, but before and behind Thermopylæ; for near
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Close to this city was a pyramid of stone, one plethrum in breadth, two plethra in height ....
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After this occurrence they proceeded seven days 'journey, five parasangs each day, till they came to the river Phasis, [224] the breadth of which is a plethrum.
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From the Tigris they proceeded, in four days 'march, a distance of twenty parasangs, to the river Physcus, which was a plethrum in breadth, and over which was a bridge.
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Near the city was a stone pyramid of the breadth [150] of one plethrum, and the height of two plethra.
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Marching through this region, they came to the river Mascas, the breadth of which is a plethrum.
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After these occurrences, Cyrus proceeded four days 'march, a distance of twenty parasangs, to the river Chalus, which is a plethrum in breadth, and full of large tame fish, which the Syrians looked upon as gods, and allowed no one to hurt either them or the pigeons.
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Thence he advanced, five days 'march, a distance of thirty parasangs, to the source of the river Dardes, which is a plethrum in breadth.
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[6] The main street, according to Diodorus, was "forty stadia in length, and a _plethrum_ (100 feet) in breadth; adorned through its whole extent by a succession of palaces and temples of the most costly magnificence.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
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Append.sect. 12, makes it 3 miles, 787-1/2 yards.] [Footnote 20: The _plethrum_ was 100 Greek or 101.125 English feet.
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