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scholiast

[ skoh-lee-ast ]

noun

  1. an ancient commentator on the classics.
  2. a person who writes scholia.


scholiast

/ ˈəʊɪˌæ /

noun

  1. a medieval annotator, esp of classical texts
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Derived Forms

  • ˌDZˈپ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • l·t adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of scholiast1

From the Greek word DZḗs, dating back to 1575–85. See scholium, -ast
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of scholiast1

C16: from Late Greek DZŧ, from skholiazein to write a scholium
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Example Sentences

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Numerous quotations and fragments still exist, chiefly in the Homeric scholiasts and Stephanus of Byzantium.

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The Greek poets, Homer not excepted, are by their scholiasts regarded as treating of their gods in a mystical style.

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The statement of the scholiast is evidently a mere inference from the patronymic form of the word.

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Nothing can express this superstitious rite more forcibly than the following letter from Aspasia to Pericles, recorded by one of the scholiasts of Ælian.

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Thus it seemed to the sophists, to the scholiasts, alchemists, cabalists, Talmudists, and to our own scientific science and to our artistic art.

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