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parasang|ˈpærəsæŋ|
See also farsang.
[ad. L. (It., Sp.) parasanga, ad. Gr. παρασάγγης, of Persian origin, the corresponding mod.Pers. word being farsang, Arab. farsaχ; in mod.F. parasange, farsange.]
A Persian measure of length, usually reckoned as equal to between 3 and 3½ English miles. Also fig.
Reckoned by Herodotus, and app. also by Xenophon, as equal to 30 stadia, which, taking the stadium at 610 ft., would make the Parasang less than 3½ miles. The Arab geographers according to Freytag reckon the farsakh at 3 (Haschemite) miles. But according to Pliny and Strabo the length of the parasang was reckoned differently by authors, some making it = 40 or even 60 stadia. See also Grote Greece IX. ii. lxix. 20 note.
[1555Eden Decades 315 The lake conteyneth fortie Persian myles cauled Parasange.] 1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. ii. vi. (1636) 382 The Grecians did measure the distances..by furlongs,..and the Persians by parasanges. 1623Bingham Xenophon 9 From hence..hee marched fiue Parasangs, euen to the streights of Cilicia. 1821Byron Sardan. ii. i, Sloth..moves more parasangs in its intents Than generals in their marches. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxxvi. IV. 418 He [Artaphernes] caused the territory of each [Ionian] city to be measured by parasangs (each parasang was equal to thirty stadia, or about three miles and a half). 1882Floyer Unexpl. Baluchisian 376 A farsakh or parasang varies in length from three to four and a half and even five miles in different parts of Persia.
fig.1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. iii. (1651) 325 Thou art many parasanges before me in means, favour, wealth, honour. 1836Landor Peric. & Asp. Wks. 1846 II. 382 If there are paces between Sculpture and Painting there are parasangs between Painting and Poetry. 1880Daily Tel. 9 Dec., Between a canary and a cook there is distance of many parasangs. |