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returned, in 1847, to take the same office, and since that time the 

 college apartment in which he died, No. 2 Holworthy, has been his 

 only home. lu 1859 he was made Assistant Professor of Greek; 

 and in 16G0 a new Professorship of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern 

 Greek was created for him, which he continued to fill until his death. 

 This professorship has since been abolished by vote of the Corporation 

 and Overseers. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Yale 

 College in 1837, and from Harvard College in 1847; and that of 

 LL. D. from the Western Reserve College in 18G2, and from Harvard 

 College in 1868. 



The principal publications of Professor Sophocles are as fol- 

 lows : — 



Greek Grammar, 1838; second edition (a new work), 1847. 



First Lessons in Greek, 18-39. 



Greek Exercises, 1841 ; second edition, 1848. 



Romaic Grammar, 1842 ; second edition, 1857 ; republished in London, 1866. 



Greek Lessons for Beginners, 1843. 



Catalogue of Greek Verbs, 1844. 



History of the Greek Alpliabet, witli Remarks on Greek Orthography and Pro- 

 nunciation, 1848 ; second edition, 18-54. 



Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek, published as Vol. VII. of the Memoirs 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1860. 



Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from b. c. 146 to a. t>. 

 1100), 1870; a revised and much enlarged edition of the Glossary just 

 mentioned. 



Professor Sophocles was a scholar of extraordinary attainments. 

 His knowledge of the Greek literature in its whole length and 

 breadth could hardly be surpassed, and he had much rare and pro- 

 found erudition on many points on which the Western scholarship is 

 most weak. On the other hand, he treated the classic philology of 

 Germany with neglect, if not with contempt, and he never learned 

 German so as to read it with facility. The works of most of the great 

 German scholars of the present century were little known to him, 

 except so far as they were written in Latin or translated into English. 

 But many things which are found in these works came to Sophocles 

 independently. His native language was a great help to him in his 

 study of Ancient Greek, and his intuitions often seemed to come to his 

 aid where book-learning failed hira. He showed little or no sympathy 

 with the attempt to resuscitate the ancient forms of Greek in the 

 literary language of the new kingdom of Greece ; indeed, for this 

 indifference, and for his general lack of interest in the progress of 

 Greece since the Revolution, he was often censured by his fellow 



