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about 295.7 mm, but in some provinces, particularly Germania Inferior, the so-called pes Drusianus (foot of Nero Claudius Drusus) was sometimes used, with a length of about 334 mm. (In reality, this foot predated Drusus.) Originally both the Greeks and the Romans subdivided the foot into 16 digits, but in later years, the Romans also subdivided the foot into 12 unciae (from which both the English words

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