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‖ stoa Gr. Antiq.|ˈstəʊə|
Pl. stoas, stoai.
[Gr. στοά.]
A portico, roofed colonnade; spec. the great hall at Athens (adorned with frescoes of the battle of Marathon), in which Zeno lectured, and from which his disciples were called Stoics; by Milton called ‘the painted Stoa’ (transl. of Gr. ἡ στοὰ ἡ ποικίλη: see Pœcile).
1603Holland tr. Plutarch's Mor. 279 Call to minde..the..famous Philosophers, either in Lycæum or the Academie: go to the gallerie Stoa [etc.]. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 253 His who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor xviii. 59 Large quadrangular stoas or porticoes. 1842W. C. Taylor Anc. Hist. ix. §3 (ed. 3) 230 At the east were erected two splendid stoai, or porticoes. 1898Edin. Rev. Oct. 359 Temples and stoas were still standing. |