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Название книги: Owls to Athens
Автор(ы): Harry Turtledove
Жанр: История
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H. N. Turteltaub is a pen name of Harry Turtledove
A NOTE ON WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND MONEY
I have, as best I could, used in this novel the weights, measures, and coinages my characters would have used and encountered in their journey. Here are some approximate equivalents (precise values would have varied from city to city, further complicating things):1 digit = 3/4 inch4 digits = 1 palm6 palms = 1 cubit1 cubit = 1 1/2 feet1 plethron = 100 feet1 stadion = 600 feet12 khalkoi = 1 obolos6 oboloi = 1 drakhma100 drakhmai = 1 mina(about 1 pound of silver)60 minai = 1 talentAs noted, these are all approximate. As a measure of how widely they could vary, the talent in Athens was about 57 pounds, while that of Aigina, less than thirty miles away, was about 83 pounds.
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From the men’s room-the andron-Menedemos son of Philodemos watched the rain patter down in the courtyard of his father’s house. It dripped from the red roofing tiles at the edge of the eaves. The drips had scored little grooves in the dirt; this was as he