στοά, ᾶς, ἡ,
[[ “SIG” 29 (Attic, found at Delphi, 6th-5th c.BC), +others, “IG” 12.115.7, +others] Refs 6th c.BC+]; also στοιά (in anapaestic verse) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 676, 684, 686 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], and in some dialect Inscrr., [[ “IG” 12(3).170.22 (from Astypalaea), 42(1).115.20 (probably, Epid., 4th-3rd c.BC), Ρχ. Ἐφ.1913.227 (from Lesbos)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; στωϊά [[ “Inscription Magn.” 67.6 (Cnossian decree, 3rd-2nd c.BC), “IG” 12(2).14.2, +others (Mytil.)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:— roofed colonnade, cloister, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.52, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.90, 8.90, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.29, 7.4.31, NT.John.10.23, “CPHerm.” 94.3 (3rd c.AD), etc. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II at Athens,
__II.1 storehouse, magazine, especially for corn, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 548; στοιὰ ἀλφιτόπωλις [prev. author] “Ec.” 686, compare 14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 ἡ στοιὰ ἡ βασίλειος the court where the βασιλεύς sat, [[[prev. work] 684 ] Refs]; ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 210d, compare “Euthphr.” 2a, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.3.1, 1.14.6, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 8.86 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. βασιλική at Thera, [[ “IG” 12(3).326.19. ] Refs]
__II.3 ἡ στοὰ ἡ ποικίλη, see at {ποικίλος} 11.3: also ἡ σ. alone, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.85 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς σ., of the Stoics (since Zeno taught there), [[ “Placita Philosophorum” 1.5.1, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.11, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.15, etc.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; οἱ ἐκ τῆς σ. [[ [prev. author] 18(1).259: also ἡ Σ] Refs]. alone, the Stoic school, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.68S. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]