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Definition of Scholiasts

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 Scholiasts 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...
- This is an outline of commentaries and commentators. Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible...
- The Bobbio Scholiast (commonly abbreviated schol. Bob.) was an anonymous scholiast working in the 7th century at the monastery of Bobbio and known for...
- Palaemon by Iphinoe, the daughter of Antaeus and (presumably) Tinge. Scholiasts on Pindar's Pythian Ode 9 also recorded a story which made Antaeus king...
- confides in it her worries for her husband Odysseus and her son Telemachus. Scholiasts on Homer inform that she was also known under several other names: Hypsipyle...
- Nemean 7 since it is largely based on marginal comments by scholiasts and Pindaric scholiasts are often unreliable. The fact that Pindar gave different...
- 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...
- ****phone, and to the priestess of the Delphian Apollo. According to the scholiasts of Pindar and Euripides, priestesses received the name Melissae from the...
- could not fight. For she would fail with fear if she should fight. — Scholiast on Aristophanes, Knights 1056 and Aristophanes ib) According to Pindar...
- I (1877), in Hermathena 3.5, pp. 183, 197, citing Iamblichus and the Scholiast on Aristophanes. The pentagram was said to have been so called from Pythagoras...