Re: a query

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:

> At 8:36 pm +0100 30/9/00, Dan Jones wrote:
>
> >I was wondering if anyone could help me out. What weights and measures did
> >the ancient Romans use, especially in measuring land and area?
>
> Hope this helps.  I'm afraid I don't recall the measures of capacity
> accurately enough & will have to do some checking.  As I recall it was a
> little more complicated in that some Greek measures had got mixed in with
> Roman ones.
See also my posting at http://www.egroups.com/message/Celticonlang/8,
although I did get the gender of "libra" wrong.  These are the standardized
units used internationally in Ill Bethisad, not *quite* the same as the
Roman values.

You might also want to grab the "units" program, available from GNU
mirrors everywhere, or compiled for DOS at http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/units.zip .
It can do conversions from and to hundreds of units, and it
understands Roman units.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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