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Scholiast

noun
1.
A scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author).





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"Scholiast" Quotes from Famous Books



... calls a bystander to be a witness to his bad treatment. The woman says, 'If, by Proserpine, instead of all this 'testifying' (comp. Cuddie and his mother in 'Old Mortality!') you would buy yourself a rivet, it would show more sense in you!' The Scholiast explains echinus as [Greek phrase deleted ...
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam
... variations as to the origin of the phrase are to be found in the above. The scholiast on Euripides states that in early times before the trumpet was invented, it was customary for a torch-bearer to perform the duties of a trumpeter. Each of any two opposing armies would have one, and the two priests advancing in front ...
— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio


Words linked to "Scholiast" :   student, glossarist, bookman, scholarly person, scholar


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