Scholia: Difference between revisions

'''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>