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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 patrimony. Augustus now behis secretary, which Horace declined. came his friend , and offered to make him When Mæcenas was sent to Brundusium to conclude 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 difficulties of poetical composition, and the principles which should guide the poet in his work. Horace died suddenly, in the year of Rome 746 , and 8 B. C.
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Horatius
See Cocles. Hortensius, Q. A celebrated orator who began A to distinguish himself in the Roman Forum when he was nineteen years old. Cicero speaks eulogistically of his oratorical powers, and of his retentive memory. Quintilian alludes to his orations in terms of high commendation.
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Horatius Cocles
a hero of ancient Rome. The Tarquins having, afbasin of mercury, covered, when necester their banishment, sought refuge with sary, to protect it from the wind, with the Etrurian king Porsenna, the latter a roof made of glass plates whose suradvanced against Rome (507 B. c.) to refaces are parallel. It is used in connec- According to tradition Ho - tion with a sextant in observations on ratius Cocles, along with two companland, and it derives its name from the ions, held the Sublician bridge against contradistinction to the sea (or natural) the enemy while the Romans broke it horizon which is used by navigators. down behind them. When this was
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Horatius Flaccus
QUINTUS, applied to the same purposes as bone commonly known as HORACE (q. v.). and ivory, and the manufacture is al-
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Horbehutet
The Egyptian winged disk. He was a solar deity who accompanied the sun-god, Ra, on his daily journey across Egypt for the purpose of warding off evil from him. His symbol was placed over the gates and doors of temples to protect them from malign influences.
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Hordein
a term that most similar. The other kind of horn, has been applied to a substance that can found in the ox, antelope, goat, and be extracted from barley, which is mixture of starch, cellulose, sheep, consists of a number of conical sheaths inserted one into another, the and a somewhat nitrogenous matter. innermost resting upon the vascular
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Hore
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
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Horeb
a mountain belonging to the membrane covering the bony core. The same ridge as Mount Sinai, where is still tip is very dense, and the layers of which it is composed are scarcely distinguishpointed out the rock from which water issued at the blow of Moses. able. This kind of horn appears to consist of coagulated albumen; and there is
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Horehound
or HOARHOUND, in a regular connection between horns, botany, a plant so hoary as to be almost woolly; the leaves are broadly ovate and nails, claws, hoofs, scales, hair, feathers, and even skin. The horns of oxen are crenate; the whorls of flowers dense; the principal ones used for manufacturwild in Continental Europe, North Africa, Western and Southern Asia, etc. ing purposes; the horns of bulls and cows being preferred to those of bul- Black or stinking horehound is Ballota nigra, or the genus Ballota; wild horelocks, which are thin and of a coarse texture. The horns of goats and sheep hound, Eupatorium teucrifolium. The are whiter and more transparent than plant contains a bitter principle and a those of any other animals. volatile oil, used as a tonic, expectorant, In horn manufacture, the first process and alterative for coughs. necessary is to remove the core which is
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Horicon
a name apforming bone ash, a substance valuable plied to Lake George by the novelist in making cupels for assaying purposes. Cooper. The Red Men called the lake They are also used in other ways-for making glue, stiffening for cloth dresses, Andialarocte. Jogues, the French misand for manure. The solid tip of the sionary pioneer, named it St. Sacrahorn, after being sawn off, is used for mente, because he discovered it the day making knife handles, umbrella handles, etc. After being divided into thin
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Horizon
the visual circle of the firmament. The term "sensible," "vislaminæ, the remainder of the horn is used for various purposes. Hoofs and ible," or "physical" horizon is often horn cuttings are used for making prusused, though not quite accurately, for a siate of potash and prussian blue; and plane supposed to be extended from the the clippings of the combmaker are used observer's eye at right angles to a veras manure. An artificial horn is made tical line at the place and extending to from the gelatine obtained from bones the celestial vault. The horizon convenastronomical purposes, and by muriatic acid, and converting it into a horny substance by tanning. called the astronomical, or rational hori-
ARTIFICIAL, a shallow
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Horn-Book
an old style English primer. It consisted of a sheet of paper or vellum pasted on a panel of wood and covered with transparent horn to prevent wear. The wooden frame was provided usually with a handle and was held like a hand mirror. When not in use it was hung by a ring from the child's girdle. The contents of the horn-book designed to instruct the infant reader showed first of all a large cross; then followed the alphabet in large and small letters. The vowels were printed in a line by themselves. Their combinations with the consonants, as b a, ba; b e, be; b i, bi; were given in a tabular form. A safeguard against evil spirits ran "In the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the Holy Ghost." It was followed by the Lord's Prayer. Lastly came the Roman numerals. The writers of the Elizabethan Age, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and others, allude to the horn-book. Though each child in a dame school formerly had a horn-book, specimens are now exceedingly rare and are among the choicest treasures of the museums.
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