anti-commentaries
anti-commentaries is the plural of anti-commentary.
Meaning of anti-commentary
Noun
anti-commentary (plural anti-commentaries)
- A hostile commentary, as distinct from an exposition.
- Metrodorus too had written against two Platonic dialogues polemics that appear to have been of a similar sort; and later Philodemus also composed an anti-commentary against Xenophon’s Oeconomicus.2011, Eleni Kechagia, Plutarch Against Colotes: A Lesson in History of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 80
Questions about anti-commentaries
- What is anti-commentaries the plural of?
- Anti-commentaries is the plural of anti-commentary.
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