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

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Etymology

Origin of scholium

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

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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

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.

Occasionally a scholium of this kind gives the substance of one of the longer extracts; but as a rule they are distinct.

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

An illustration, like a funny story, loses its pungency if it requires a scholium.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

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 Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

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

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

The scholia on Horace extant under Acro’s name are, with few exceptions, taken from the commentary of Pomponius Porphyrio, which we possess in a mutilated form.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton

Callistratus chiefly devoted himself to the elucidation of the Greek poets; a few fragments of his commentaries have been preserved in the various collections of scholia and in Athenaeus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

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