Poecĭle
ēs, f.
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.