Scholasts

Scholasts, ancient grammarians, for the most part anonymous and known only by their short annotations written on the margins of the MSS. of the ancient classics, Greek and Roman. These remarks concern the language more frequently than the substance, and are sometimes feeble and pedantic, but often tend to elucidate the text or even critically amend it. The earliest scholiasts were those of the Alexandrian School (q.v.); many are as late as the Byzantine period. A Gloss (q.v.) was one of the merely verbal scholia.