[Meaning] a treasury; [so called] on account of being elongated.[1] "Stoas of grain and of Bacchic flow," [i.e.] containing bread and wine. [So says] Aristophanes.[2]
[sc. Note also] Stoa, the philosophical school in Athens; [spelled] with an omicron. But those [named] after it [are] Stoics, [spelled] with an omega.[3]
It was named for Peisianax, but later, after being painted, it was called Poikile.[4]
[It is said] that Damianos, an Ephesian sophist, constructed the domed stoa outside Ephesos extending to the shrine.[5]