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 itaque ad computationem cohortis equitatae militariae pedaturam ad milie trecentos sexaginta dari debere; which is thus explained: The pedatura, or space allowed for a cohors 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 horseman to one foot soldier, be assigns as two and a half to one.