ἐξ-έδρα, ἡ,
hall or arcade furnished with recesses and seats, in the gymnasia, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1449 (_anapaest meter_), 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Κωνεαζόμεναι” 10, “IPE” 12.182 (from Olbia), “IG” 12(3).1091 (from Melos), “BGU” 931.26 (1st c.AD), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in the schools of Philosophers, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.100M., 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.8, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “de Finibus” 5.2.4, 1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 5.11.2; in a private house, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 14.18. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 bench, seat, in front of a house, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 4.19 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; any public bench, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 13.4.5, 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 28.2 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; belvedere, [[ 1st c.BC: Nicolaus Damascenus Historicus “fragment” 1J. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 parlour or saloon, [[ LXX.Eze.40.44, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Oralor” 3.5.17, “ND” 1.6.15, 1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 6.7.3, 7.3.4, “POxy.” 912.13 (3rd c.AD)] LXX+1st c.BC+]; the hall in Pompey's theatre at Rome, where the Senate met, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Brutus” 14, 17. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]