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Scholium   Listen
noun
Scholium  n.  (pl. L. scholia, E. scholiums)  
1.
A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian.
2.
A remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning.






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"Scholium" Quotes from Famous Books



... commenting on St. John's Gospel, pass straight from ch. vii. 52 to ch. viii. 12. Of course they do. Why should they,—how could they,—comment on what was not publicly read before the congregation? The same thing is related (in a well-known 'scholium') to have been done by Apolinarius and Theodore of Mopsuestia. Origen also, for aught I care,—though the adverse critics have no right to claim him, seeing that his commentary on all that part of St. John's Gospel is lost;—but ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon

... carriage, I believe," said Oldbuck, stepping to the window. "On my word, a handsome quadriga,for such, according to the best scholium, was the vox signata of the Romans for a chariot which, like that of your lordship, ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott



Words linked to "Scholium" :   marginalia



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