SOPHOCLES, Evangelinus Apostolides, scholar, born in Tsangaranda, near Mount Pelion, Thessaly, Greece, 8 March, 1807; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 17 December, 1883. He resided in Egypt during the Greek revolution, studied in the convent of the Greek church on Mount Sinai, and in 1829 came to this country under the patronage of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. After studying in Monson, Massachusetts, he entered Amherst, but did not complete his course. He then taught in schools in Amherst, Hartford, and New Haven, and in 1840-'5 and 1847-'9 was tutor in Harvard. In the last year he became assistant professor, and in 1860 he was given the chair of ancient, modern, and Byzantine Greek, which he retained till his death. He received the degree of A. M. from Yale in 1837 and from Harvard in 1847, and that of LL. D. from Western Reserve in 1862 and from Harvard in 1868. He made two voyages to his native country, returning each time with valuable books. Professor Sophocles published " Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners" (Hartford, Connecticut, 1838; 3d ed., entitled "Greek Grammar for the Use of Schools and Colleges," 1847) ; "First Lessons in Greek" (1839); "Greek Exercises" (1841) ; "Romaic Grammar" (1842; 2d ed., Boston, 1857; London, 1866); "Greek Lessons for Beginners" (Hartford, 1843); "Catalogue of Greek Verbs" (1844); "History of the Greek Alphabet, with Remarks on Greek Orthography and Pronunciation " (Cambridge, 1848)" "Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek " (Boston, 1860, forming vol. vii., new series, of "Memoirs of the American Academy")and " Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods," his chief work (Boston, 1870).