In this form, Homer and Plato would peruse with more satisfaction their own writings; and their scholiasts must resign the prize to the labors of our Western editors.
The evidence derived from a comparison of the British Museum papyrus with the quotations from the lost work of Aristotle's which are found in scholiasts and grammarians is conclusive.
Before this date our knowledge was largely derived from the statements of scholiasts and lexicographers which had not seldom been misunderstood.
What the public voice of the Athenians had approved, the scholiasts of Alexandria winnowed.
The scholiasts to Aristophanes, in like manner, inform us that Morsimus owed a certain celebrity to his ugliness, to the tameness of his tragic style, and to his want of skill as a professional oculist.
The scholiasts of Alexandria, working in vast libraries which contained the whole treasures of Greek literature, decided that only a few poets were worthy of minute study.
Thus it happened that copies were repeated of certain well-established favorites; and so the treasures of dramatic poetry inherited by us represent the taste of scholiasts and teachers rather than the likings of the Attic audience.
To Plutarch, to Pausanias, and to the scholiasts we owe similar obligations, though the value of their critical remarks is slight compared with that of every word which fell from Aristotle's pen.
Above all, it has had its centuries of scholiastsand commentators, extracting the aroma as well as the dust of its assumed divinity.
This in fact seems clearly to be the first step we have to take, if we wish to make an attempt at least of advancing beyond the interpretations of scholiasts to the meaning of the Sûtras themselves.
The late Byzantine scholiasts drew up summaries of these treatises and of many others; an important manuscript of this class at Venice gives a list of fifty-two such works.
The Scholiastsattempt to refer it to the ancient theory of the elements.
Footnote 372: "The Scholiasts and Eustathius explain this epithet by the received opinion that trees in exposed situations are usually the strongest and most vigorous from their frequent agitation by the wind.
The very scholiasts said that Homer marked the base birth of Thersites by saying nothing about his parentage and home.
Mr. Leaf says, "It is useless to inquire why father and son had thus changed shields, as the scholiasts of course do.
These brilliant men, the so-called Scholiasts or Schoolmen, were really very intelligent, but they had obtained their information exclusively from books, and never from actual observation.
We have also the notes and comments of the scholiasts or commentators on the poets and dramatists.
The scholiasts and mythographi often retain myths from lost poems and lost plays.
With regard to Alfenus and Gallus, the scholiasts remained somewhat nearer the truth, for they had at hand a speech of Callus criticizing the former for his behavior at Mantua.
According to Macrobius, Vergil paid him the compliment of imitating him, and he in turn is cited by the scholiasts as authority for an opinion of Vergil's.
We may then at once reject the statement of the scholiasts that Vergil wrote the Eclogues for the purpose of thanking Pollio, Alfenus, and Gallus for having saved his estates from confiscation.
The obsequious scholiastsof the Empire have nowhere so thoroughly exposed their own mode of thought as in their interpretations of these two Eclogues.
If, however, we examine these statements in the light of facts provided by independent sources we shall find that the whole structure based upon the subjective inferences of the scholiasts falls to the ground.
Yet the same scholiasts confess that this angelic band was not visible to any mortal eye, (Maracci, p.
See the Scholiasts on the Aves of Aristophanes, ver.
This distribution, which is ascribed to the Platonists, may be found also in the scholiasts on Pindar, at the beginning of the fifth Isthmian Ode, p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scholiasts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
