Epistola ad Joannem Millium

…new era began with the Epistola ad Joannum Millium (1691) of Richard Bentley (1662–1742). This collection of brilliant miscellaneous observations, prompted by the editio princeps of the 6th-century Byzantine chronicle of John Malalas, displayed already the comprehensive learning and rare power of divination that were to enable Bentley to lay…

…request gave rise to Bentley’s Epistola ad Joannem Millium (1691), a short treatise in which his skill in textual emendation and his knowledge of ancient metre were strikingly displayed.