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William Johnson Cory 1823-92, English poet and classicist. He was assistant master at Eton from 1845 to 1872. His verse, of which Ionica (1858) is the best known, consists primarily of imitations and translations of the Greek and Latin poets.

Bibliography: See his Letters and Journals (ed. by F. W. Cornish, 1897).

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Cory, William Johnson (1823–92), is best remembered for his volume of poems Ionica (1858), and in particular for the translation that it contains of the epigram of Heraclitus of Halicarnassus by Callimachus, ‘They told me Heraclitus, they told me you were dead.’ He also wrote the ‘Eton Boating Song’, published 1865.

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