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scho·li·um

(skō′lē-əm)

n. pl. scho·li·ums or scho·li·a (-lē-ə)

1. An explanatory note or commentary, as on a Greek or Latin text.

2. A note amplifying a proof or course of reasoning, as in mathematics.

[New Latin, from Greek skholion, diminutive of skholē, lecture, school; see segh- in Indo-European roots.]

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scholia - a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature)

scholium

marginalia - notes written in the margin

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Gaisford, Oxford, 1814-1820; Leipzig, 1823 (with scholia: in

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She focuses on fragments from the scholia majora to the Iliad, and within this a specific group of scholia, which mostly deal with Aristarchus' exegesis and interpretation of specific philological problems, rather than his edition of the Iliad.

The Best of the Grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad

"Scholia on Angelological Cognition." Albert Mancini.

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The Nature of the Scholia on Plato's Phaedrus, SIMON FORTIER

PHRONESIS: Vol. 63, No. 4, August 2018

In neon, like scholia on the centuries-old text, Harraki has added in Arabic: "There are two forms of abstinence, one general and one partial.

Mohssin Harraki: Galerie Imane Fares

Scholia on Passages of the Old Testament by Mar Jacob.

The etymology of Aramaic (and Hebrew) [square root of (term)]prns 'to distribute, supply'

There are similar observations in the scholia on Homer.

From enargeia to immersion: the ancient roots of a modern concept

By recalling this Homeric speech, questions about narrative order and the reader's experience of pleasure are raised, the second of which is defined by scholia as characteristically Greek.