American clergyman, born in Hartford, PA, on the 2nd of September 1810; graduated from Amherst (1830) and Andover Theological Seminary (1836); professor of Latin and Greek at Amherst (1836–47), and of Greek only after 1847. He twice visited Europe and the East. He wrote or annotated a number of textbooks, among which are Germania and Agricola of Tacitus (new ed., 1878); Histories of Tacitus (1848); Plato’s Apology and Crito (1859); Theology of the Greek Poets (1867); History of Amherst College (1873); Demosthenes de Corona (1874); Demosthenes’s Philippics and Olynthiacs (1875); and Nine Books of the Iliad (1886).
