DUPORT, JAMES (1606-1679), English classical scholar, was born in Cambridge. In 1639 he was appointed regius pro fessor of Greek there, in 1664 dean of Peterborough, and in 1668 master of Magdalen college. Throughout the Civil War, in spite of the loss of his clerical offices and eventually of his professorship, Duport continued his lectures. He is best known by his Homeri gnomologia (1660), a collection of the aphorisms in the Iliad and Odyssey, illustrated by quotations from the Bible and classical literature. His other published works chiefly consist of trans lations (from the Bible and Prayer Book into Greek) and short original poems (florae subsecivae or Stromata and Sylvae).
Duport did much to keep alive the study of classical literature in his day.
The chief authority for the life of Duport is J. H. Monk's "Memoir" (1825) ; see also Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. (1908) , ii. 349.