id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6647 Scholia - Wikipedia .html text/html 1191 148 60 Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from Ancient Greek: σχόλιον, "comment, interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments — original or copied from prior commentaries — which are inserted in the margin of the manuscript of ancient authors, as glosses. Ancient scholia are important sources of information about many aspects of the ancient world, especially ancient literary history. Important sets of scholia[edit] List of ancient commentaries[edit] Some ancient scholia are of sufficient quality and importance to be labelled "commentaries" instead. Other uses[edit] ^ R Sweeny, Prolegomena to an Edition of Scholia on Statius (1969) p. Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises. External links[edit] Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Edit links ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6647.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6647.txt