Steven Avery
Administrator
Elliott p. 73
In reply to Mr. W.A. Wright’s second question, Dionysius says that Benedict died indeed in 1840, but in April, not in August. In a letter written to the Editor of the Telegraph of the Bosphorus, and published in that journal in December, 1851, a bitter opponent of Simonides, Melchisedec, on the Monastery of Laura, states that the death of Benedict took place in May. In reply to the third question, Dionysius states that Simonides was neither the nephew of Benedict, nor was he in any way related to him. I have before me the Telegraph of the Bosphorus of the 8th of December, 1851, in which is the commencement of the article above alluded to, written by one who has spared no pains in casting discredit upon the pretensions of Simonides to the discovery of the secret library in the Rossico monastery. Yet in this article Benedict is spoken of in the highest terms, and always as the uncle of Simonides. Had there been the smallest doubt about the relationship existing between them, the fact would have been eagerly seized on in this hostile letter of Melchisedec.
In reply to Mr. W.A. Wright’s second question, Dionysius says that Benedict died indeed in 1840, but in April, not in August. In a letter written to the Editor of the Telegraph of the Bosphorus, and published in that journal in December, 1851, a bitter opponent of Simonides, Melchisedec, on the Monastery of Laura, states that the death of Benedict took place in May. In reply to the third question, Dionysius states that Simonides was neither the nephew of Benedict, nor was he in any way related to him. I have before me the Telegraph of the Bosphorus of the 8th of December, 1851, in which is the commencement of the article above alluded to, written by one who has spared no pains in casting discredit upon the pretensions of Simonides to the discovery of the secret library in the Rossico monastery. Yet in this article Benedict is spoken of in the highest terms, and always as the uncle of Simonides. Had there been the smallest doubt about the relationship existing between them, the fact would have been eagerly seized on in this hostile letter of Melchisedec.
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