Schoenus (Latin: schœnus; Ancient Greek: σχοίνος, schoinos, lit.
Strabo noted that it also varied with terrain, and that when he "ascended the hills, the measures of these schoeni were not everywhere uniform, so that the same number sometimes designated a greater, sometimes a less actual extent of road, a variation which dates from the earliest time and exists in our days."
[1] This agrees with the distance implied by the Triacontaschoenus stretching south of the First Cataract in Roman-era Nubia.
The Byzantine schoinion or "little schoenus" (σχοινιον, skhoinion) was 20 000 Greek feet or 33⅓ stades.
The Heraclean Tables admonished that each schoenus should be planted with 4 olive trees and some grape vines, upon penalty of fines.