Lewis & Short

† schŏla (scŏla), ae, f., = σχολή (spare time, leisure; hence, in partic.),

  1. I. 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.
    1. B. Transf.
      1. 1. A place for learned conversation or instruction, a place of learning, a school (cf. ludus): toto hoc de genere, de quaerendā, de collocandā pecuniā, commodius a quibusdam optimis viris ad Janum medium sedentibus quam ab ullis philosophis ullā in scholā disputatur, Cic. Off. 2, 25, 90: qui cum in scholā assedissent, id. de Or. 1, 22, 102; 1, 13, 56; Suet. Gram. 17; Quint. 3, 11. 26: politus e scholā, Cic. Pis. 25, 59: e philosophorum scholis tales fere evadunt, id. Or. 27, 95; Quint. 1, prooem. § 17; 12, 3, 12: rhetorum, id. 12, 2, 23: potiorem in scholis eruditionem esse quam domi, id. 2, 3, 10; 5, 13, 45; so (opp. forum) id. 5, 13, 36: ut ab Homero in scholis, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 2.
        1. b. A gallery where works of art were exhibited: Octaviae scholae, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 29; cf. id. 35, 10, 3, § 114.
        2. c. Scholae bestiarum, a place where animals fight, an amphitheatre, Tert. Apol. 35.
      2. 2. 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.
        1. b. 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.
        2. c. The building of that corporation, Inscr. in Jahn’s Neue Jahrb. vol. 66, p. 338.
  2. * II. A place in a bathing-room where one waited before entering the bath, a waiting-place, Vitr. 5, 10 fin.