scholars

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Mohammed's presumable life has now been extricated, in flesh and blood, with diverting irony, from the pros and cons of scholiasts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like the scholiasts of old, two U.S. intellectuals sternly debated the question of whether Cinemactress Kim Novak can dance on the head of a pin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Consider all the commentators, the scholiasts, the interpreters, the annotators, and other like book-worms, from Aristarchus down to D�derlein; and may it not be said that, among them all, 'Nec viget quidquam simile aut secundum?'

From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert

We compare it with the dry mythologic blossoms of the classical hortus siccus, and with Greek ritual and temple legend, and with Märchen in the scholiasts, and we think the comparisons very illuminating. 

From Modern Mythology by Lang, Andrew

The evidence derived from a comparison of the British Museum papyrus with the quotations from the lost work of Aristotle’s which are found in scholiasts and grammarians is conclusive.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various