Meaning of scholiast | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

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

“[L]ike it or not, I was caught up once more in the scholiast’s game, paring popular notions of the ‘queer’ and ‘unearthly’ from notions of the ‘monstrous’.”

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