Dict: smith - MILE

smith:

MILE - M>@ - a Roman measure of length, equal to 1618 English yards
4854 feet, or about nine-tenths of an English mile. It is only once noticed in the Bible, kjv@Matthew:5:41) the usual method of reckoning both in the New Testament and in Josephus being by the stadium. The mile of the Jews is said to have been of two kinds, long or short, dependent on the length of the pace, which varied in different parts, the long pace being double the length of the short one.

MILETUS - M>@ - kjv@Acts:20:15-17) less correctly called MILETUM in ( kjv@2Timothy:4:20) It lay on the coast, 36 miles to the south of Ephesus, a day’s sail from Trogyllium. kjv@Acts:20:15) Moreover, to those who are sailing from the north it is in the direct line for Cos. The site of Miletus has now receded ten miles from the coast, and even in the apostles’ time it must have lost its strictly maritime position. Miletus was far more famous five hundred years before St. Paul’s day than it ever became afterward. In early times it was the most flourishing city of the Ionian Greeks. In the natural order of events it was absorbed in the Persian empire. After a brief period of spirited independence, it received a blow from which it never recovered, in the siege conducted by Alexander when on his eastern campaign. But still it held, even through the Roman period, the rank of a second-rate trading town, and Strabo mentions its four harbors. At this time it was politically in the province of Asia, though Caria was the old ethnological name of the district in which it was situated. All that is left now is a small Turkish village called Melas , near the site of the ancient city.