schŏla | scŏla (noun F) = σχολή: (), , , = (spare time, leisure; hence, in partic.)
* Leisure given to learning, a learned conversation or debate, a disputation, lecture, dissertation, etc.: in quam exercitationem (disputandi) ita nos studiose operam dedimus, ut jam etiam scholas Graecorum more habere auderemus ... Itaque dierum quinque scholas, ut Graeci appellant, in totidem libros contuli,Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 7; 8: separatim certae scholae sunt de exsilio, de interitu patriae, etc. ... Haec Graeci in singulas scholas et in singulos libros dispertiunt,id. ib. 3, 34, 81: scholam aliquam explicare,id. Fin. 2, 1, 1: habes scholam Stoicam,id. Fam. 9, 22, 5: vertes te ad alteram scholam: disseres de triumpho,id. Pis. 25, 60: ubi sunt vestrae scholae,id. ib. 27, 65; Quint. 3, 6, 59 Spald.
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* A place in a bathing-room where one waited before entering the bath, a waiting-place, Vitr. 5, 10 fin.
* A gallery where works of art were exhibited: Octaviae scholae,Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 29; cf. id. 35, 10, 3, § 114.
* The disciples or followers of a teacher, a school, sect: clamabunt omnia gymnasia atque omnes philosophorum scholae, sua haec esse omnia propria,Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 56: ejus (Isocratis) schola principes oratorum dedit,Quint. 12, 10, 22; cf.: Theodori schola,id. 3, 11, 26: scholae Asclepiadis,Plin. 14, 7, 9, § 76: dissederunt hae diu scholae,id. 29, 1, 5, § 6: Cassianae scholae princeps,Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 8.
* In the time of the later emperors, a college or corporation of the army or of persons of the same profession: Schola Exceptorum, Chartulariorum, Singulariorum, etc., Cod. Th. 12, 20, 20; 12, 17, 2 et saep.; Cod. Just. 4, 65, 35; Amm. 14, 7, 12.
* The building of that corporation, Inscr. in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. vol. 66, p. 338.—*