POECILE was a famous portico at Athens, which received its name from the variety (ποικίλος) of paintings which it contained. Zeno kept his school there; and there also the stoics received their lessons, whence their name, ἀποστολος, a porch. The Poecile was adorned, among many others, with a picture of the siege and sacking of Troy, the battle of Theseus against the Amazons, and the fight between the Lacedemonians and Athenians at Oenoe in Argolis. The only reward which Miltiades obtained after the battle of Marathon was to have his picture drawn more conspicuous than that of the rest of the officers that fought with him, in the representation which was made of the engagement, and which was hung up in the Poecile in commemoration of that celebrated victory.