mile Copy link Outline 1. mille passuum; or simply mille (about 142 yards less than an English mile)2. meton., expr. by milliārium, lăpis (m.-stone) • mile: 1. mille passuum; or simply mille (about 142 yards less than an English mile): to make up a m., ut m. passuum conficiatur, Cic. Att. 4, 16, fin.: to be 200 m.s from the capital, ab urbe abesse millia passuum CC., id. Sext. 12, extr.: we creep along for three m.s, millia tria repimus, Hor. S. 1, 5, 25: Cic.: Liv. 2. meton., expr. by milliārium, lăpis (m.-stone): the plebs took up their position about three m.s. (from Rome), plebes ad tertium milliarium consedit, Cic. Br. 14, 54: by the side of the Appian road, about five m.s (from Rome), juxta Appiam viam, ad quintum lapidem, Nep. Att. extr.: Liv. (N.B.--Milliarium and lapis can only be used in counting the distance from some capital city.)