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plural scholiasts
A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors. quotations examples
[N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.
1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
[L]ike it or not, I was caught up once more in the scholiast’s game, paring popular notions of the ‘queer’ and ‘unearthly’ from notions of the ‘monstrous’.
1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 8