A very long engagement : some remarks about the relationship between "marginalia" and commentaries in the Virgilian tradition

Starting from Montana’s definition of scholia as a planned and stratified compilation of marginal notes, this paper discusses the use of aliter and of similar expressions introducing new and different explanations in Latin scholiography, in particular in Tiberius Claudius Donatus’ commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid. Furthermore, some chains of notes in the Virgilian commentaries are taken into consideration, in order to check the several possible connections between these commentaries and single marginal annotations.