scholium

noun

1. A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary.

   “And when I shulde make scholias, notis, and gloses in the margent as himself and his master doith.”

   “Mr. Fox was fain to make soom Scholia’s on it, to reconcile a gloss like that of Orleance, which corrupts the Text.”

   “Almost every word admits a scholium, and a long one too.”

   “Short Scholia are added to almost every chapter, containing various readings, or various translations, selected with much judgment and critical acumen.”

   “Judy, however, did not choose to receive the laugh as a scholium explanatory of the remark.”

2. A note added to a proof as amplification.

   “Scholium, is a remark made leisurely, and as it were by the by, on that Proposition, Subject or Discourse before advanced, treated of, or delivered.”

   “Which is evident likewise concerning the Orbits of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, from the Scholium to Prop. 9.”

   “Some…cast all their…metaphysical and…moral learning into the method of mathematicians, and bring every thing relating to those abstracted or those practical sciences under theorems, problems, postulates, scholiums, corollaries, &c.”

   “A scholium is a remark applied to some preceding propositions, in order to point out their relative connection, or general utility and application.”

3. A “copy-book maxim”, trite saying.

   “The old scholium, that ‘too much familiarity breeds contempt’.”