LEADER 03901nam 2200649 450 001 9910460270703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-5682-4 010 $a1-4426-3351-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442656826 035 $a(CKB)3710000000433160 035 $a(EBL)3432169 035 $a(OCoLC)929153884 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001636795 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16394709 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001636795 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14955584 035 $a(PQKB)10978403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669425 035 $a(CEL)449957 035 $a(OCoLC)918588994 035 $a(CaBNVSL)kck00235745 035 $a(DE-B1597)465751 035 $a(OCoLC)944178613 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442656826 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669425 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11255958 035 $a(OCoLC)958570736 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000433160 100 $a20160919h19621962 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEpistola ad Joannem Millium $ereprinted from the edition of the Rev. Alexander Dyce together with an introduction by G.P. Goold /$fRichard Bentley 210 1$a[Toronto, Ontario] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1962. 210 4$dİ1962 215 $a1 online resource (155 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4426-5182-2 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tJOANNI MILLIO, S.T.P. -- $tADDENDA -- $tINDEX 330 $aThe year 1962 marks the tercentenary of the birth of Richard Bentley (1662?1742), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, editor of Paradise Lost, but principally and justly famous as one of the greatest classical scholars. To mark the event, the University of Toronto Press is issuing a special reprint of Alexander Dyce?s edition of the Epistola (1691), the work which first brought Bentley fame, and which has long been out of print.This Latin exercise was called forth by one of those unhappy productions which, mediocre themselves, have had the ill luck to attract the inspection of genius. In the eighth or ninth century A.D., Joannes Malelas of Antioch, a Greek writer, attempted a chronological record of mankind and in it he had recourse to name or "e from classical works no longer extant. English scholars in the seventeenth century prepared a translation of the chronicle into Latin and an accompanying commentary; just before its publication, under the final editorship of John Mill, Bentley was given an opportunity to read proof-sheets and the result was the Epistola, a collection mainly of some twenty-five notes upon statements found in or topics suggested by Malelas. This extraordinary performance by a scholar of 29 moves from one topic to another over a wide range of ancient literature, explaining or correcting some sixty Greek and Latin authors. The notes are not so much a commentary on the old chronicler as a set of dazzling dissertations pegged upon a random set of appalling howlers, and they reveal prodigious information and gift of divination. Bentley?s style in Latin is clear and spirited and seasoned with choice of "ation. The Epistola immediately secured for its writer the fame reserved for men of the rarest excellence and this classic among academic productions is still charged with power to instruct and inspire the scholarship of another era. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. 676 $a828.509 700 $aBentley$b Richard$f1662-1742,$0191206 701 $aGoold$b G.P$0896966 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460270703321 996 $aEpistola ad Joannem Millium$92004197 997 $aUNINA