Porticus, huius porticus, f. g. Ouid.A porch: a walke: a galery or large place made to walke in, either for pleasure or for the raine. Philosophers taught and disputed in such.Amplæ porticus.Virg.Large galeries or walking places.Longæ.Virg. Milliariæ porticus, Vide MILLE. Spatiosa porticus, Ouid.Vacuæ porticus.Virg.Coire in porticum.Plin. iun.To meete togither at the common galerie or walking place.In porticibus deambulantes disputabant philosophi. Ci. Spaciari porticibus.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
portĭcus, ūs, f. (also heteroclit. acc. plur. PORTICOS, Inscr. Orell. 4043) [porta], a walk covered by a roof supported on columns, a colonnade, piazza, arcade, gallery, porch, portico, = stoa/. I.Lit.: omnes porticus commetiri, Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 7: porticum aedificare, id. ib. 3, 2, 69; Cic. Att. 4, 16, 14: inambulare in porticu, id. Rep. 1, 12, 18: viae latae, porticus, etc., id. ib. 3, 31, 43: porticuum laxitas, Suet. Calig. 37: porticuum, id. Dom. 14; Vitr. 5, 1: in amplis porticibus, Verg. A. 3, 353; cf. id. ib. 2, 528: me porticus excepit, Hor. S. 1, 4, 134; id. Ep. 1, 1, 71: porticus, in quā gestetur dominus, Juv. 7, 178: triplex, Vulg. Ezech. 42, 3.—In the upper story, Dig. 39, 2, 47.—II.Transf.A.The entrance or porch of a tent (poet.): saucii opplent porticus, the porches, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38.—B.A weather-board, shed, Col. 9 praef. 2; 9, 7, 4; 9, 14, 14.—2.A long shed or gallery to protect soldiers in sieges, Caes. B. C. 2, 2, 3.—3.The Porch or Portico, meaning the school of the Stoics (from stoa/, porch, the place where Zeno taught); hence, transf., the Stoic philosophy, the Stoics: Chrysippus, qui fulcire putatur porticum Stoicorum, Cic. Ac. 2, 24, 75; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 44: clamat Zeno et tota illa porticus tumultuatur, Cic. Fragm. ap. Aug. contr. Ac. 3, 7; Gell. 12, 5, 10.