scholiast

From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs), from σχολιάζειν (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion).

scholiast (plural scholiasts)

A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
- 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  [N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.
- 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 8:
  [L]ike it or not, I was caught up once more in the scholiast’s game, paring popular notions of the ‘queer’ and ‘unearthly’ from notions of the ‘monstrous’.

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