scholia
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Scholia (: scholium or scholion, from , "comment", "interpretation") 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.
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P13411
- Julia the Elder
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- List of ancient commentaries
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Scholia (: scholium or scholion, from , "comment", "interpretation") 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.
== History == thumb|upright|Ernst Maass, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana (1887), a collection of scholia of [[Homer's Iliad]]
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