scholia

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature)
noun a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature)

It consisted more and more of compilations, of scholia, of extracts, of commentaries, forgeries, imitations. — Phaedrus, Plato
Siebelis in his Preface to Pausanias, p. xxi, gives from an old Scholia a sort of excuse for the action of the women of Lemnos. — Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch
Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed--Preface to the second edition--The ensuing controversy, its causes and acrimony--Philosophic definitions of a Poem and Poetry with scholia. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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