Parasanga
(
παρασάγγης). A parasang; a Persian measure of distance
equal to thirty stadia (
Herod.vi. 42) or some 3 1/2 or 4 English
miles. The length of the parasang varied in later times (Pliny ,
Pliny H. N. vi. 30), but the name survives in the modern Persian
farsang, in which distances are still reckoned in Asia, and which is
approximately the same as that of the time of Herodotus.