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Scholiast

//ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.

    "[N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses."

  2. 2
    a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs), from σχολιάζειν (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion).

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