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

So also reads the author of the scholium in Cramer's Cat. ii.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

The same Don Pringello, the celebrated Spanish architect, of whom my cousin Antony has made such honourable mention in a scholium to the Tale inscribed to his name.—Vid. p.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

May I be permitted to declare that I am distrustful of the proposed inference, and shall continue to feel so, until I know something more about the scholium in question?

From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William

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

Many MSS. of Horace contain ancient scholia which are copied or taken with abridgment from the commentaries of Porphyrio, who lived about A.D.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

B., prol., syn., carefully written, with scholia to the Acts.

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

The literature of succeeding centuries furnishes only isolated references; the more important are found in the scholia on Aristophanes, the lexicons of Hesychius, Photius and others, and the Etymologicum Magnum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

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.