एक विद्वान जो एक लेखक पर व्याख्यात्मक नोट्स लिखता है (विशेष रूप से एक शास्त्रीय लेखक पर एक प्राचीन टिप्पणीकार)

scholiasts's Usage Examples:

Numerous quotations and fragments still exist, chiefly in the Homeric scholiasts and Stephanus of Byzantium.

Among scholiasts may be mentioned the Scholiasta Bobiensis who is assigned to the 5th century, and a pseudo-Asconius, who wrote notes upon the Verrines dealing with points of grammar and rhetoric.

Their writings were much used by historians, as well as by the scholiasts and grammarians.

His investigations into the usages and customs of his native Attica were embodied in an Atthis, in seventeen books, a history of Athens from the earliest times to 262 B.C. Considerable fragments are preserved in the lexicographers, scholiasts, Athenaeus, and elsewhere.

scholiasts's Meaning':

a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author

Synonyms:

glossarist, scholar, student, bookman, scholarly person,

Antonyms:

specialist,