Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient Greek musical instrument, consisting of two single flutes, either similar or different, so joined at the mouthpiece that they could be played together. See cut under
auletris . - noun In anc. Greek games, a double course, in which the racers passed around a goal at the end of the course, and returned to the starting-place.
- noun An ancient Greek itinerary measure, the equivalent of two stadia.
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Examples
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The foot races were the stadion (on a track of about 190 meters), diaulos (two laps of the track), and a race in which runners wore a helmet and shin guards and carried a shield.
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The square or oblong peristyle in a palaestra should be so formed that the circuit of it makes a walk of two stadia, a distance which the Greeks call the [Greek: diaulos].
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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[1010] In the double course (diaulos) the runner turned (kampto) the post at the end of the stadium.
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This forward and backward movement constitutes the _diaulos_: less than this will not satisfy the law as the complex process understood by the _course of post_.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Eight days for the _diaulos_ [27] of the journey, and two, suppose, for getting up a public meeting, composed a cycle of _ten_ before an act received its commentary, before a speech received its refutation, or an appeal its damnatory answer.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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It is no matter of wonder or complaint that a paper written by a correspondent a distance of four hundred miles, or something more, from the press, requiring, therefore, a _diaulos_ of above eight hundred miles for every letter and its answer, a distance which becomes strictly infinite in the case when the correspondent sends no answer at all, should exhibit some press errors.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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_diaulos_, what is the flux and reflux -- the to and the fro -- the systole and diastole of the respiration -- between you and Liverpool.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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[Footnote 52: I mean that they included the progressive or outward-bound course, and equally the regressive or homeward-bound course, within the compass of this one word [Greek: diaulos].
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Less than this is only the half section of a _diaulos_.]
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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