- Not to be confused with skolion.
Scholia (singular
scholium or
scholion, from , "comment, interpretation") are
grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments, either original or extracted from pre-existing commentaries, which are inserted on the margin of the
manuscript of an ancient author, as
glosses. One who writes scholia is a
scholiast. The earliest attested use of the word dates to the 1st century BC.