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Horace

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Hor·ace  (hôrs, hr-) Originally Quintus Horatius Flaccus. 65-8 b.c.
Roman lyric poet. His Odes and Satires have exerted a major influence on English poetry.
Ho·ratian (h-rshn) adj.
Horace [ˈhɒrɪs]
n
(Biographies / Horace (65 bc-8 bc) M, Roman, WRITING: poet, WRITING: satirist) Latin name Quintus Horatius Flaccus. 65-8 bc, Roman poet and satirist: his verse includes the lyrics in the Epodes and the Odes, the Epistles and Satires, and the Ars Poetica
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Noun1.Horace - Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)
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Horace [ˈhɒrɪs] N → Horacio
Horace
n → Horaz m
Horace [ˈhɒrɪs] n → Orazio
Horace [ˈhɒrɪs] n → Orazio


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I am an officer in the English army--my name is Horace Holmcroft.
The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie View in context
, was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius's rather inaccurate, but much sought-after, edition of Horace -- a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
The philosophy of this ancient poet appears to have been that of Horace.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
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