An answer to a late book written against the learned and reverend Dr. Bentley, relating to some manuscript notes on Callimachus together with an examination of Mr. Bennet's appendix to the said book.

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An answer to a late book written against the learned and reverend Dr. Bentley, relating to some manuscript notes on Callimachus together with an examination of Mr. Bennet's appendix to the said book.
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Whately, Solomon.
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London printed :: [s.n.],
1699.
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Orrery, Charles Boyle, -- Earl of, 1676-1731. -- Dr. Bentley's dissertations on the epistles of Phalaris and the fables of Aesop.
Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742. -- Dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris.
Bennet, Thomas, 1673-1728.
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"An answer to a late book written against the learned and reverend Dr. Bentley, relating to some manuscript notes on Callimachus together with an examination of Mr. Bennet's appendix to the said book." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65606.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.

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The Accounts of Decad the First.

Within the compass of Decad the First, there are in all, Quotations 16. Of which in Mr. Stanley 7. For that Quotation just now named from Clemens Alexandr. n. 2. and those two from Didymus upon Homer, n. 5, 6. for the rea∣sons before given, I shall make bold to bring over to the Dr's side. Of these 7. in Mr. Stan∣ley, every one, (but that from Suidas,) n. 1. In∣dex'd: sc. 5. of them in the Books from whence they are taken; and the other, viz. Martial's Epigram in Parrhasius, by Gruter to his Fax Artium, ut supra.

In Dr. Bentley, Quotations 9. not one of them, that I know of, so index'd. Correcti∣ons 5. his right accenting the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 I count for one) not in Mr. Stanley. So that though the Dr's some Additions rise up but ve∣ry thin here in comparison of what they do in the following part of his Collection, yet they are even here two to one for what is in Mr.

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Stanley; to which the consideration of index'd and not index'd added will give a farther ad∣vantage. Nota speciatim, n. 4. Stephanus Byzan∣tinus, not index'd; in Dr. Bentley: not in Mr. Stanley, vid. supr. p. 54, 55.

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