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John Conington

John Conington

John Conington was an English classical scholar. In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott. He was Corpus Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1854 until his death.

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The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace

66 BCE-9 BCE Horace · John Conington

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace

66 BCE-9 BCE Horace · John Conington

The Æneid of Virgil translated into English prose

71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil · Edgar S. (Edgar Solomon) Shumway +1