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John Conington
Born
10 August 1825
Died
23 October 1869(1869-10-23) (aged 44)
Boston, Lincolnshire, England
Title
Corpus Christi Professor of Latin (1854–1869)
Academic background
Alma mater
University College, Oxford Magdalen College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline
Classical scholar
Sub-discipline
Latin literature
ancient Greek literature
commentary
Persius
Horace
Virgil
Homer
Aeschylus
Institutions
University College, Oxford Corpus Christi College, Oxford
John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar.[1] In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott.[1] He was Corpus Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1854 till his death.
^ abChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Conington, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 942.
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