scholiums

Noun

scholium (plural scholia or scholiums)

1. A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary.
   • And when I shulde make scholias, notis, and gloses in the margent as himself and his master doith.1535, Joye, Apol. Tindale (Arb.), page 23
2. A note added to a proof as amplification.
   • Scholium, is a remark made leisurely, and as it were by the by, on that Proposition, Subject or Discourse before advanced, treated of, or delivered.1704, J. Harris, Lex. Techn., volume I
3. A “copy-book maxim”, trite saying.
   • The old scholium, that ‘too much familiarity breeds contempt’.1830, Marryat, King’s Own, chapter xix