σταδιασμός

A. measuring by stades, Str. 1.3.2, 2.1.17; in title of a lost geographical work, IGRom. 4.1445 (Smyrna); also of an extant work (GGM i p.427).
2. conjecture, Victorin. in Cic.Rhet. p.180 Halm.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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