A philosophic sect generally called Stoics (Greek, stoa, a porch), because Zeno, the founder, gave his lectures in the Athenian picturegallery, called the porch Pœʹcilē.
“The successors of Socratēs formed societies which lasted several centuries; the Academy, the Porch, the Garden.”—Professor Seeley: Ecce Homo.
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