Word: scholiast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Records of the Faculty during the years when he was its Registrar, and those of the Parietal Board when he was its Chairman, not only show his deep interest in the affairs of these boards, but contain many specimens of his humor, some of which now need a scholiast to elucidate them...
...Vetruvian stage, ten feet above the great circles of the orchestra where the chorus were grouped, or whether actors as well as chorus performed in the orchestra, is of great importance even to the general reader, as the whole stage action is involved. Until very lately, scholars following the scholiast have interpreted Greek drama from the standpoint of the existence of a stage, basing their opinions first on the authority of the scholia and certain phrase. which were taken to refer to the passages up or down of the actor as he went up the stairs to the stage from...