GLOSS

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In the Rhetoric of Aristotle, this word is used in the sense of a foreign, obsolete, or otherwise strange idiom; which, judiciously employed, he reckons among the ornaments of style From the sense of " something requiring interpretation " the word came to mean the interpretation itself: strictly, of a single word or phrase. In the twelfth century, the comments or annotations of learned jurists on pa ages in the text of the Roman law were denominated glo es; when these extended to a running commentary, they were termed an apparatus. The glo es were collected by Accursius in the 13th century, and from that period they formed for a long time a body of authority reckoned equal or even superior to the text itself. [s. 530]