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- Dictionaryscholiast/ˈskəʊlɪast/
noun
- 1. a commentator on ancient or classical literature. historical
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Scholia are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of the manuscript of ancient authors, as glosses. One who writes scholia is a scholiast. The earliest attested use of the word dates to the 1st century BC. Wikipedia