scholion

plural scholia · plural rare scholions

1. A scholium.

   The opinion that the Lady is a Church is mentioned…by an ancient scholion.

   1882, Farrar, Early Chr., volume II, page 487, note

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   Hereunto haue I added a certain Glosse, or scholion, for thexposition of old wordes.

   1579, E. K., Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., Dedication

   A judgment which follows immediately from another, is sometimes called a Corollary or Consectary. One which does not belong to the science in which it appears, but is taken from another, is called a Lemma. One which illustrates in some way the science where it appears, but is not an integrant part of it, is a Scholion.

   1842, William Thomson, Outline of the Laws of Thought, London · Oxford: William Pickering · William Graham, PART II. — JUDGMENTS. (pages 53–80), § 39. — Corollary or Consectary, Lemma, Scholion., page 80

   An ancient Scholion, recently discovered, names four poets who worked under that prince [Pisistratus].

   1858, Gladstone, Homer, volume I, page 53