What is "scholiasts"

Usage examples of "scholiasts".

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 consid­ered vulgar because they kissed no one but their children.

The New Worlders have three denominations: the Scholiasts, who believe this approach should be intellectual.