- στοά
- στοά, ᾶς, ἡ, SIG29 (Attic, found at Delphi, vi/v B.C.), al., IG12.115.7, al.; also [full] στοιά (in anapaest. verse) Ar.Ec.676,684,686, and in some dialect Inscrr., IG12(3).170.22 ([place name] Astypalaea), 42(1).115.20 (prob., Epid., iv/iii B.C.), Ρχ. Ἐφ.1913.227 ([place name] Lesbos); [full] στωϊά Inscr.Magn. 67.6 (Cnossian decree, iii/ii B.C.), IG12(2).14.2, al. (Mytil.):—A roofed colonnade, cloister, Hdt.3.52, Th.4.90,8.90, X.HG5.2.29, 7.4.31, Ev.Jo.10.23, CPHerm.94.3 (iii A.D.), etc.II at Athens,1 storehouse, magazine, esp. for corn, Ar.Ach.548;
στοιὰ ἀλφιτόπωλις Id.Ec. 686
, cf. 14.2 ἡ στοιὰ ἡ βασίλειος the court where the βασιλεύς sat, ib.684; ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως ς. Pl.Tht.210d, cf. Euthphr.2a, Paus.1.3.1, 1.14.6, Poll.8.86; σ. βασιλική at Thera, IG12(3).326.19.3 ἡ στοὰ ἡ ποικίλη, v. ποικίλος 11.3: also ἡ ς. alone, And.1.85; so οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς ς., of the Stoics (since Zeno taught there), Placit.1.5.1, S.E.M.9.11, Gal.10.15, etc.; οἱ ἐκ τῆς ς. Id.18(1).259: also ἡ Σ. alone, the Stoic school, Phld.Rh.2.68S.4 of other porticoes,ἡ σ. ἡ τῶν Ἑρμῶν Aeschin.3.183
; ἡ μακρὰ ς. D.34.37; ἡ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Ἐλευθερίου ς. Pl.Thg.121a.III long roof or shed used in sieges, SIG569.36 (Halasarna, iii B.C.), Plb.1.48.2:—gallery, communication trench, whether above ground or excavated, Ph.Bel.83.32, 85.10, 91.31.
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