| This only extends to eleven passus, or less than half of the whole poem, as subsequently written. |
| Then a colleague at the U of C provided the idea of using the medieval passus as a way of building the story toward the novella at its heart. |
| Gressus is a product of going, but passus, of standing also, if the feet are at the same distance from each other as in walking. |
| The expression used, however, for fathoms is passus, presumably the Roman measure equal to 58.1 inches. |
| However, it must be pointed out that it was not the passus duriusculus as such that took on this symbolic meaning, but rather Schutz's use of that figure. |
