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a city in Washington in Grays Harbor co., situated on Grays Harbor and on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Northern Pacific, and the Oregon-Washington railroads and Navigation Company railroad. It is in the midst of an extensive timberland and is important as a port, having a fine harbor. Its industries include bor. Its industries include shipyards, There is a Carnegie library and a handsome high school building Pop. (1910) 8,171; (1920) 10,058.

HOR (hor), in Arabia Petræa, a mountain of a conical form in the range of Mount Séir, on the E. side of the Araestate, and was reduced to great ds; and, Horace with his estate, want, till Vergil introduced him to Mæcenas, through whose interest he recovered his ered his patrimony. Augustus now behis secretary, which Horace declined. came his friend, and offered to make him When Mæcenas was sent to Brundusium a treaty between Augustus and Anthony he took with him Horace, not long after, he presented Ho Vergil, and other literary friends; the Sabine villa, to which he retired for the rest of his days. His "Odes" and his "Epistles" and "Satires" abound are models of that kind of composition, with acute and vivacious observations, while his "Poetic Art" presents the difcomposition, and the principles which should guide the poet in his work. Horace died suddenly, in the year of Rome 746, and 8 B. C.

HORE (hō-rē), in classical mytholoview-as the goddesses of the seasons, gy, divinities regarded in two points of and of the hours of the day. Their duty was to hold the gates of heaven, which they opened to send forth the chariot of the sun in the morning, and receive it again in the evening. brothers, who, according to tradition, in HORATII (hō-rā'she-i), three Roman the reign of Tullus Hostilius engaged order to decide the supremacy between three Alban brothers (the Curiatii), in Rome and Alba. Victory went to Rome, triumphantly conducted back to the city. and the sole surviving Horatius was But his sister had been betrothed to one and her demonstrative HORATIUS COCLES grief so enraged Horatius that he stabbed her. For this he was condemned to death, but his father and the people obtained his pardon.

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