a term used in Roman antiquities to indicate a space or proportion of a certain number of feet set apart. This word often occurs in writers on military affairs. In Hyginus *De Castrumdetione* we meet with the following passage, viz. "Meminerimus itaque ad computationem cohortis equitatis militaris pedaturn ad milie trecentos sexaginta dari debere?" the meaning of which is, that *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 Pedal same number, but must exceed it by 360 feet; for the proportion of the room occupied by one horseman to that occupied by one foot soldier was estimated as two and a half to one.