a term used, in Roman antiquity, for a space or proportion of a certain number of feet set out. This word often occurs in writers on military affairs: as in Hyginus de Castrametatione we meet with meminerimus tiaque ad computationem coloris equitati milliarice pedaturam ad milie trecentos sexaginta dari debere; which is thus explained: The pedatura, or space allowed for a coloris equitata or provincial cohort, consisting of both horse and foot, could not be the same as the pedatura of an uniform body of infantry, of the same number, but must exceed it by 360 feet; for the proportion of the room of one horsemanship to one foot soldier he assigns as two and a half to one.