scholiast

scholiast
    n 1: a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author
         (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)
    

Scholiast \Scho"li*ast\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a scholium: cf. F.
   scoliate. See {Scholium}.]
   A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.
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         No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . .
         . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate
         discourses.                              --Macaulay.
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64 Moby Thesaurus words for "scholiast":
      allegorist, annotator, book reviewer, captious critic, carper,
      caviler, censor, censurer, cicerone, clarifier, cognoscente,
      commentator, commenter, connoisseur, critic, criticaster,
      criticizer, critickin, criticule, cryptanalyst, cryptographer,
      cryptologist, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer,
      diaskeuast, dragoman, editor, editorial writer, editorialist,
      emendator, emender, euhemerist, exegesist, exegete, exegetist,
      explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, faultfinder,
      glossarist, glossographer, go-between, guide, hermeneut,
      interpreter, leader writer, lexicographer, literary critic,
      man of letters, metaphrast, muckraker, news analyst, oneirocritic,
      paraphrast, publicist, reviewer, smellfungus, social critic,
      textual critic, translator