Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Sto’ics.

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Stole (Latin, stola).

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Sto’ics.

Founder of the Stoic school. Zeno of Athens. These philosophers were so called because Zeno used to give his lectures in the Stoa Pœcilé of Athens. (Greek, stoa, a porch.)

Epicte’tus was the founder of the New Stoic school.

“The ancient Stoics in their porch

With fierce dispute maintained their church,

Beat out their brains in fight and study

To prove that virtue is a body,

That bonum is an animal,

Made good with stout polemic bawl.”

Butler: Hudibras, ii. 2.

Stockwell Ghost.

Stole (Latin, stola).

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