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The basic unit of Roman linear measurement was the pes (plural: pedes) or Roman foot. Investigation of its relation to the English foot goes back at least to 1647, when John Greaves published his Discourse on the Romane foot .
Miles or Miles Gregarius – The basic private level foot soldier. Numerus – A unit of foreign allies not integrated into the regular army structure. Later, a unit of border forces. Numerus Batavorum – was a personal, imperial guards unit for the Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (30 BC – AD 68) composed of Germanic soldiers.
Cord-foot – a U.S. unit of volume for stacked firewood with the symbol cd-ft equal to 16 cu ft (0.45 m 3) [7]: ... Ancient Roman units of measurement;
The pound was derived from the mina (unit) used by ancient civilizations. A smaller unit was the shekel, and a larger unit was the talent. The magnitude of these units varied from place to place. The Babylonians and Sumerians had a system in which there were 60 shekels in a mina and 60 minas in a talent. The Roman talent consisted of 100 libra ...
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The jugerum or juger (Latin: iūgerum, iūgera, iūger, or iugus) [a] was a Roman unit of area, equivalent to a rectangle 240 Roman feet in length and 120 feet in width (about 71×35½ m), i.e. 28,800 square Roman feet (Latin: pedes quadratum) [1] or about 1 ⁄ 4 hectare (0.623 acre).
In the Ancient Rome, pertica, also called decempeda, [2] was a unit of length, usually equal to 10 Roman feet (pedes), or approximately 2.96 meters. [3] The variants of pertica contained 12 [4] and 15 [5] pedes.
The term sagittariorum in the title of an infantry or cavalry unit indicated a specialized archer regiment. [1] Regular auxiliary units of foot and horse archers appeared in the Roman army during the early empire. [2] During the Principate roughly two thirds of all archers were on foot and one third were horse archers. [2]