Pergŭla
(from
pergo, hence something projecting). A name given to
1.
a veranda, roofed over, but open at the sides, used for a teacher's lecture-room, a
painter's studio, or a shop (
Juv.xi. 137; Pliny ,
Pliny H. N. xxxv. 84; Auson,
Epist. iv. 6);
2.
a covered balcony projecting from the upper part of a house (
Suet.
Aug. 94); and
3.
the
cella of a prostitute (Plaut.
Pseud. i. 2, 78).