Scholiast Definition

skōlē-ăst
noun
One who writes marginal notes and comments; esp., an ancient interpreter and annotator of the classics.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Scholiast

Noun

Singular:
scholiast
Plural:
scholiasts

Origin of Scholiast

  • Medieval Greek skholiastēs from skholiazein to comment on from Greek skholion scholium scholium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From late Latin scholiasta, from late Greek σχολιαστής, from σχολιάζειν, from σχόλιον "˜scholium'.

    From Wiktionary

Scholiast Sentence Examples

  • According to Philochorus, as quoted by a scholiast on Aristophanes, he fled to Elis, where he made the great statue of Zeus for the Eleans, and was afterwards put to death by them.

  • The same difficulty is found in the case of the IIEpi to-Topias referred to by the scholiast on Apollonius.

  • He is further credited by the scholiast on Aristophanes (loc. cit.) with having composed comedies, dithyrambs, epigrams, paeans, hymns, scolia, encomia and elegies; and he is the reputed author of a philosophical treatise on the mystic number three.

  • Ganessa, an eminent astronomer, mathematician and scholiast of Bhaskara, quotes this work and makes separate mention of the cuttaca (" pulveriser "), a device for effecting the solution of indeterminate equations.

  • On this a scholiast says that the name "Homeridae " denoted originally descendants of Homer, who sang his poems in succession, but afterwards was applied to rhapsodists who did not claim descent from him.

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