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Definition of Scholiast

Scholiast
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.

Meaning of Scholiast from wikipedia

- m****cript of ancient authors, as glosses. One who writes scholia is a scholiast. The earliest attested use of the word dates to the 1st century BC. Ancient...
- The Bobbio Scholiast (commonly abbreviated schol. Bob.) was an anonymous scholiast working in the 7th century at the monastery of Bobbio and known for...
- Dionysalexandrus 2. 12-9 (trans. Grenfell & Hunt) (Gr**** poetry C5th BC) Scholiast on P. Oxy. 663, Argument of Cratinus' Dionysalexandrus 2. 12-9 (The Oxyrhynchus...
- and then swallows her, thereby giving rise to Athena from himself. A scholiast on the Iliad, in contrast, states that when Zeus swallows her, Metis is...
- however, is not found before the 15th century, and is doubtful. The scholiast may therefore be called Pseudo-Acron. Fragments of Acron's writing may...
- could not fight. For she would fail with fear if she should fight. — Scholiast on Aristophanes, Knights 1056 and Aristophanes ib) According to Pindar...
- Campbell lists the fragment. Gr**** historian, c.300 BC. 254 V = 202 LP A scholiast on Horace While 263 V refers to the whole of Heroides 15, Campbell quotes...
- historica 4.27.2. scholia in Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 4.1399. Scholiast on Euripides, Hippolytus 742 (Cavarezan, p. 288) [= Pherecydes fr. 16d...
- flourished in the 87th Olympiad. This agrees with the statement of the scholiast on Aristophanes, that at Melite there was a statue of Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς...
- sources mention other sons of Menelaus by either Helen, or slaves. A scholiast on Sophocles's Electra quotes Hesiod as saying that after Hermione, Helen...