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MINAS [MINOIDES] (c. 1790-186o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 501 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MINAS [MINOIDES] (c. 1790-186o)  , Greek scholar, was a native of
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Macedonia . During the Greek War of Independence he migrated to Paris, where he tried to enlist the sympathies of
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Europe on behalf of his countrymen and to promote the study of ancient and
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modern Greek . But his chief claim to recognition consists in his
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discovery of two important
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MSS . (amongst others) in the monastery of Mt Athos during his exploration of the
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libraries of
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Turkey and
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Asia, at the instance of M . Villemain, minister of public instruction in France . One of these contained the last
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part of a
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treatise on the Refutation of all Heresies, now generally admitted to be the
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work of Hippolytus (q.v.), the other the greater portion of the Fables of
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Babrius .

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