[832]. Suidas, v. σκολίον, t. ii. p. 759, e. sqq. Etym. Mag. 718, 35, sqq. Eustath. ad Odyss. η. 276, 49.
[833]. Mr. Müller, however, disapproves of this etymology. “It is much more likely,” he says, “that in the melody to which the scolia were sung, certain liberties and irregularities were permitted, by which the extempore execution of the song was facilitated.”—History of Greek Literature, pt. i. chap. xiii. § 16, seq.
[834]. Plut. Symp. i. 1. Athen. xiv. 24.
[835]. Hesych. v. ᾄσακος, ap. Ilgen. De Scol. Poes. p. 154.
[836]. Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 1339, 1346.
[837]. Potter, Antiq. ii. 403.
[838]. Sch.[Sch.] Aristoph. Nub. 1337, seq.
[839]. Ilgen, De Scol.[Scol.] Poes. p. 156.
[840]. Aristoph. Nub. 1358. Conf. Schol. ad Vesp. 1222.
[841]. Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 1367.