[1] Between 1849 and 1854, he was the headmaster of the Greek High School of Larnaca (Σχολή της Λάρνακας).

[1] Sakellarios travelled extensively around Cyprus and recorded folk songs, games, proverbs, lullabies, myths and traditions.

[1][4] Additionally, he recorded ancient inscriptions,[5] and visited various monuments, archaeological sites and ecclesiastical buildings offering descriptions of their architecture.

Later he revised and expanded his work and published it for a second time in two volumes, I (1890) and II (1891).

[4] Sakellarios married a Cypriot woman, Aggeliki Demetriou Michalopoulou (Αγγελική Δημητρίου Μιχαλοπούλου) from Larnaca.