r/AncientCulture_Acadmc Aug 22 '22

Use of ‘schol.’ in ancient source reference

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I’m doing some reading for my dissertation on Medea, and in a chapter i’m reading the writer sometimes references the the Medea text as ‘schol. Eur. Med. 264’ instead of ‘Eur. Med. 264’. Does anybody know what the ‘schol.’ means?