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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Latin plural of scholium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural See scholium.

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  • noun Plural form of scholium.

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  • noun a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature)

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Examples

  • His exegetical works contain explanations of difficult passages of Holy Scripture, and include a Commentary on the Lord's Prayer and on Psalm 59, various "scholia" or "marginalia" (commentaries written in the margin of manuscripts), on treatises of the Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite (October 3) and St Gregory the Theologian (January 25).

    orrologion 2009

  • In Ta ellinika scholia sti Thessaloniki kata tin Tourkokratia, Actes du Colloque

    Salonika: Female Education at the end of the Nineteenth Century. 2009

  • It is Arethas™ commentary in the sense that he copied, and possibly collected and edited, the scholia in his Aristotle manuscript; in terms of authorship, however, it is a product of mass collaboration.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • The best examples in the period after c. 730 of collections of scholia with introductions are probably the commentaries on Porphyry's and Aristotle™s logical works by Leo Magentenos (late 12th or early to mid-13th century).

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • The most basic type of commentary is (a) simply a collection of scholia or notes, usually transmitted in the margin of the Aristotelian text.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • The individual scholia of such a collection may be the work of an indeterminate number of scholars.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • An example is Arethas™ scholia on the Isagoge, which draws on many earlier commentaries, some of which are now lost.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • Rome in 1578, in folio, with scholia and commentaries by Francois

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Apart from these works, we possess scholia from Olympiodorus 'commentary on Aristotle's de Interpretatione in the Codex Vaticanus Urbinas Graecus 35.

    Olympiodorus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • Cicero later ended up defending this same Vatinius in a speech which has not survived but some of the contents of which we know from the ancient scholia on the speech against Vatinius.

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

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  • WeirdNet 2 and WeirdNet 3 seem to be scholia themselves.

    January 3, 2009

  • Found this in Kant's Introduction to Critique of Judgement. So there.

    February 18, 2009