scholiast

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/ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst/(UK)

Definition of scholiast

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noun

A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.

“[N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.”
“[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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From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs), from σχολιάζειν (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion).

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