STADIUM, an ancient Greek long measure, containing 125 geometrical paces, or 625 Roman feet, corresponding to our furlong.
The word is formed from the Greek στάσις, station; and it is said, on this occasion, that Hercules, after running so far at one breath, stood still. The Greeks measured all their distances by stadia, which they call στάδιον. — Stadium was also the course or career wherein the Greeks ran their races.