Poecile

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Poecĭle, ēs, f., = Ποικίλη (variegated).

I The picture-gallery, a celebrated hall or portico in the market-place at Athens : in porticu, quae Poecile vocatur, Nep. Milt. 6, 3; cf. Plin. 35, 9, 35, § 59.—

II A gallery in the Athenian style at the Tiburtine villa of the emperor Hadrian , Spart. Hadr. 26.

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