单词 | poecile |
释义 | Poecilen. (The name of) a celebrated portico decorated with paintings in the marketplace of ancient Athens. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > parts of market-place > specific Poecile1603 synagogue1894 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Tearmes sig. Aa5/2 Zeno..taught in a certeine spatious gallery at Athens, called Poecile, for the varietie of pictures wherewith Polignotous the excellent painter beautified it. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients ii. ix. 185 Polygnotus painted at Athens the porch called Poecile freely. 1725 R. Pack New Coll. Misc. in Prose & Verse. Postscript In this Gallery the Stoick Philosophers held their Publick Disputations. It was called Poecile from the Greek Word. 1791 W. Enfield Brucker's Hist. Philos. I. ii. xi. 315 The place which he made choice of for his school was called the Poecile, or Painted Porch. 1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles I. ii. 32 The Pœcile, or painted piazza. 1838 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 139/1 The only reward Miltiades obtained after the battle of Marathon, was to have his picture drawn..and to have it hung up in the Pœcile. 1938 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 69 430 He worked in the Propylaea, in the Theseum, in the Anaceium, and in the Stoa that was later called Poecile because of his paintings there. 2000 Lighting Dimensions (Nexis) Mar. (Theatre section) Hadrian's summer palace..recalls the places which struck his imagination during his travels through the provinces: the Lyceum, Academy, and Poecile in Athens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603 |
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