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

To the eighteenth proposition, “No one can hate God,” there is a scholium which shows that the problem of pain which Spinoza has left unsolved must have occurred to him. 

From Pages from a Journal with Other Papers by Mark Rutherford

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 Laurence Sterne

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 John William Burgon

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

Apart from the biblical glosses and scholia the other chief texts or authors provided with Irish glosses are Augustine, Bede, the Canons, the Computus, Eutychius, Juvencus, Philargyrius, Prudentius and Servius.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Eus., with short scholia, Victor's commentary on St. Mark, Eus. t., syn., prol., pict.

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

There are many scholia in vermilion scattered throughout the book.

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

The Helena—produced, as we learn from the Aristophanic scholia, in 412 B.C., the year of the lost Andromeda—is not one of its author’s happier efforts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various