Scholia: Difference between revisions

{{short description|Type of comment in the manuscript of an ancient author}}

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'''Scholia''' (singular '''scholium''' or '''scholion''', from {{lang-grc|σχόλιον}}, "comment, interpretation") are [[grammar| grammatical]], critical, or explanatory comments — original or copied from prior commentaries — which are inserted in the margin of the [[manuscript]] of ancient authors, as [[gloss (annotation)|glosses]]. One who writes scholia is a '''scholiast'''. The earliest attested use of the word dates to the 1st century BC.<ref>

* Search engine relying on [[wikidata]], mainly for scientific publications: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/ Scholia]

* [[Nicolás Gómez Dávila]] was one of the most radical critics of modernity whose work consists almost entirely of aphorisms which he called "escolios" ("glosses") of an implicit text.

 

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