Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PAR'A-SANG
PAR-A-QUET'PAR-A-SCENE', or PAR-AS-CE'NI-UM
PAR'A-SANG, n.
A Persian measure of length, which Herodotus states to be thirty stadia, nearly four English miles; but in different times and places, it has been 30, 40 or 50 stadia. – Herod. Euterp. Encyc.
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