Diaulos

The foot races were the stadion (on a track of about 190 meters), diaulos (two laps of the track), and a race in which runners wore a helmet and shin guards and carried a shield. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The square or oblong peristyle in a palaestra should be so formed that the circuit of it makes a walk of two stadia, a distance which the Greeks call the [Greek: diaulos]. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

[1010] In the double course (diaulos) the runner turned (kampto) the post at the end of the stadium. ❋ Unknown (1895)

This forward and backward movement constitutes the _diaulos_: less than this will not satisfy the law as the complex process understood by the _course of post_. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Eight days for the _diaulos_ [27] of the journey, and two, suppose, for getting up a public meeting, composed a cycle of _ten_ before an act received its commentary, before a speech received its refutation, or an appeal its damnatory answer. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

It is no matter of wonder or complaint that a paper written by a correspondent a distance of four hundred miles, or something more, from the press, requiring, therefore, a _diaulos_ of above eight hundred miles for every letter and its answer, a distance which becomes strictly infinite in the case when the correspondent sends no answer at all, should exhibit some press errors. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

_diaulos_, what is the flux and reflux -- the to and the fro -- the systole and diastole of the respiration -- between you and Liverpool. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

[Footnote 52: I mean that they included the progressive or outward-bound course, and equally the regressive or homeward-bound course, within the compass of this one word [Greek: diaulos]. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Less than this is only the half section of a _diaulos_.] ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)