scholium
/ˈskəʊlɪəm
/noun (plural scholia /ˈskəʊlɪə/) historical
A marginal note or explanatory comment made by a scholiast.They fall into two categories: the first, a group of ten plays which have been transmitted to us in our medieval manuscripts complete with the accumulation of ancient notes and comments that we call scholia....
- Our claims are based on a scholium of an anonymous Byzantine commentator.
- The Irish were no better able than others to comprehend Ulysses, and only those gullible enough to answer the author's snobbish call for a lifetime's dedication to scholia could begin to penetrate the double darknesses of Finnegans Wake.
Origin
Mid 16th century: modern Latin, from Greek skholion, from skholē 'learned discussion'.