Histories

Further, the length of the seacoast of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt itself is sixty “schoeni”[*](Literally “ropes.”) —of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, that is, as we judge it to be, reaching from the Plinthinete gulf to the Serbonian marsh, which is under the Casian mountain—between these there is this length of sixty schoeni.

Men that have scant land measure by feet; those that have more, by miles; those that have much land, by parasangs; and those who have great abundance of it, by schoeni.

The parasang is three and three quarters miles, and the schoenus, which is an Egyptian measure, is twice that.