Monday, March 16, 2009

Scholia

Scholia (singular, scholion; from Greek Greek: σχόλιον "comment", "lecture"), are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments, either original or extracted from pre-existing commentaries, which are inserted on the margin of the manuscript of an ancient author, as glosses. One who writes scholia is a scholiast.
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  to speak rapidly and without stopping

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