The exhausting labours of the vice-chancellorship were followed by illness ("1887"); after this he relinquished the hope of producing any great original writing. His literary industry was thenceforth confined to a commentary on the "Republic" of Plato, and some essays on Aristotle which were to have formed a companion volume to the translation of the "Politics". The essays which should have accompanied the translation of Thucydides were never written. Jowett, who never married, died on "1 October 1893" in Oxford. The funeral was one of the most impressive ever seen in that city. The pall-bearers were seven heads of colleges and the provost of Eton, all old pupils.