Horace Definition

hôrəs, hŏr-
proper name
(L. name Quintus Horatius Flaccus) 65-8 b.c.; Rom. poet: known for his odes.
Webster's New World
noun
A masculine name.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A male given name.
Wiktionary

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a poet and philosopher of the Roman Augustan Age. Born 65 BCE in Venusia, died 27 November, 8 BCE in Rome. Horace was a contemporary and friend of Virgil. Although of low birth, Horace was admired by the Emperor Augustus and was offered, but refused, to become his private secretary.

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Roman lyric poet. His Odes and Satires have exerted a major influence on English poetry.
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Horace
Plural:
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Horace Sentence Examples

  • Art Farmer was blowing trumpet with the Horace Silver quintet in a piece called "Moon Rays" that Fred wouldn't have lis­tened to on his own unless someone cut off his ears.

  • We hear nothing of Tibullus, nor of Horace, who also never mentions Propertius.

  • See Holliday's Life (1797); Campbell's Chief Justices; Foss's Judges; Greville's Memoirs, passim; Horace Walpole's Letters; and other memoirs and works on the period.

  • Whilst under the first of these tutors, in nine months he read all Thucydides, Sophocles and Sallust, twelve books of Tacitus, the greater part of Horace, Juvenal, Persius, and several plays of Aeschylus and Euripides.

  • He also studied the first six books of Euclid and some algebra, besides reading a considerable quantity of Hebrew and learning the Odes of Horace by heart.

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