scholium

American  

[skoh-lee-uhm] / ˈskoʊ li əm /

noun

scholia plural

1. Often scholia.

   1. an explanatory note or comment.

   2. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.

2. a note added to illustrate or amplify, as in a mathematical work.

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scholium British  

/ ˈskəʊlɪəm /

noun

1. a commentary or annotation, esp on a classical text

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• scholia
  plural

Etymology

Origin of scholium

1525–35; < Medieval Latin < Greek schólion, equivalent to schol ( ḗ ) school ¹ + -ion diminutive suffix

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

scholium scholia

He topped that with a resigned scholium: "If we do get any good news, the President will announce it."

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, the index demonstrated a systematic determination to link ideas with their original authors wherever possible, and in the text and the index Barozzi even carefully labels one comment ‘the scholium of Francesco Barozzi’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Another was, according to a scholium in the Palatine MS., written in the reign of Valentinian and Valens, joint-emperors, 364-375 A.D.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

Now from an old scholium on Lucian we learn some details about the mode of celebrating the Thesmophoria, which shed important light on the part of the festival called the Descent or the Ascent.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

In the last-named he occasionally cites readings from the Samaritan text; it is interesting to note that in a scholium to 2 Kings xvii.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

Copious and intriguing notes or "scholia" explore "what I hope is a permissible minimum of pareidolia", as Manson puts it with a Mallarméan flourish.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012

Wetstein's 1869, once belonged to the Medici, pict., with Victor's commentary on St. Mark, a catena to St. John, and scholia to the other Gospels.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

In cases where their actual biographies have been lost, fragments or summaries of them have been preserved in Jerome’s continuation of the Eusebian Chronicle, and occasionally in commentaries or scholia appended to their own works.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

Important fragments are preserved in the scholia of the Venetian Codex A of the Iliad.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

In some of the MSS. which preserve Euripides' plays there are "scholia" or ancient traditional commentaries written round the margin.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert