His work, like most of the work done by Englishmen in India in time of peace, was not of a showy kind - its value is shown by the fact that he was asked to prolong his services beyond the regular term of five years, and returned to England only in 1869.
He was so weak that the under-secretary, Robert Wood, author of an essay on The Original Genius of Homer, would have postponed the business, but Granville said that it could not prolong his life to neglect his duty, and quoted the speech of Sarpedon from Iliad xii.
prolong הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד