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scholiast
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators of classical authors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scholiast \Scho"li*ast\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a scholium: cf. F. scoliate. See Scholium .] A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. --Macaulay. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who writes explanatory notes upon a classical writer," 1580s, from Late Latin scholiasta , from Late Greek skholiastes , from skholiazein , from skholion "explanatory note or comment," from skhole (see school (n.1)). Related: Scholiastic .
Usage examples of scholiast.
There was an absence from this section both of the modern philological and archeological spirit, and the report reads more like that of a congress of University tutors of the last century met to discuss the reading of a passage in a Greek play, or the accentuation of a vowel, before the dawn of Comparative Philology had swept away the cobwebs of the Scholiasts.
Polyeidus reminds him that Polyeidus never pretended authorship: Polyeidus is the story, more or less, in any case its marks and spaces: the author could be Antoninus Liberalis, for example, Hesiod, Homer, Hyginus, Ovid, Pindar, Plutarch, the Scholiast on the Iliad, Tzetzes, Robert Graves, Edith Hamilton, Lord Raglan, Joseph Campbell, the author of the Perseid, someone imitating that author -- anyone, in short, who has ever written or will write about the myth of Bellerophon and Chimera.
From these originals, and from the numerous tribe of scholiasts and critics, ^109 some estimate may be formed of the literary wealth of the twelfth century: Constantinople was enlightened by the genius of Homer and Demosthenes, of Aristotle and Plato: and in the enjoyment or neglect of our present riches, we must envy the generation that could still peruse the history of Theopompus, the orations of Hyperides, the comedies of Menander, ^110 and the odes of Alcaeus and Sappho.
Malicious scholiasts say that they did this because women were forbidden to drink wine and kissing them was a way of checking their breath, but the Numidians were considÂered vulgar because they kissed no one but their children.
The New Worlders have three denominations: the Scholiasts, who believe this approach should be intellectual.