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Benigne Emmannel Clement Miller, a French philologist, born in Paris in 1812. In 1834 he received an appointment in the manuscript department of the royal library, where he became thoroughly acquainted with Greek palaeography. In 1835 and 1836 he was sent to the libraries of Italy and Spain to collect the scholia of Aristophanes. Among the results of his explorations were a Supplement aux dernier es editions des pet its geographes grecs (8vo, 1839), Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliotneque de l'Escurial (4to, 1848), and Poesies grecques inedites de Manuel Phile. In 1851 he published at Oxford, under the title of Philosophumena, she omnium Hairesium Refutation the text of a manuscript procured from Mt. Athos by Mynas, which he believed to be an original treatise of Origen, but which is now generally attributed to llippolytus. In 1840-46 he published Revue de bibliographie analytique (6 vols.), which met with moderate success; and he has edited several minor Greek authors. He was also one of the principal editors of the Receuil d'itiner aires anciens (4to, with atlas, 1844). In 1849, he became librarian of the national assembly, and in 1860 was elected to the academy of inscriptions and belles-lettres. One of his latest works is Melanges de litterature grecque (8vo, 1868).
 
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