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See also: English classical See also: scholar, was See also: born in See also: Birmingham on the 28th of See also: July 1818
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He was educated at See also: Ludlow and See also: Shrewsbury See also: schools and Trinity See also: College, Cambridge, of which society he was elected See also: fellow in 1842, having taken his degree in 1841 as See also: senior classic
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He was for many years lecturer at Trinity, his favourite subjects being the See also: Greek tragedians, See also: Plato and See also: Aristotle
.
When the professor-See also: ship of Greek became vacant, the votes were equally divided between See also: Cope and B
.
H
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See also: Kennedy, and the latter was appointed by the chancellor
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It is said that the keenness of Cope's disappointment was partly responsible for the See also: mental affliction by which he was attacked in 1869, and from which he never recovered
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He died on the 5th of See also: August 1873
.
As his published See also: works show, Cope was a thoroughly See also: sound scholar, with perhaps a tendency to over-minuteness
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He was the author of An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric (1867), a See also: standard See also: work; The Rhetoric of Aristotle, with a commentary, revised and edited by J
.
E
.
Sandys (1877); See also: translations of Plato's See also: Gorgias (2nd ed., 1884) and See also: Phaedo (revised by H
.
See also: Jackson, 1875)
.
Mention may also be made ,of his See also: criticism of See also: Grote's account of the Sophists, in the Cambridge Journal of Classical See also: Philology, vols. i.,
(1854–1857)
.
The chief authority for the facts of Cope's See also: life is the memoir pre-fixed to vol. i. of his edition of The Rhetoric of Aristotle
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