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Horatian
[ huh-rey-shuhn, haw-, hoh- ]
adjective
- of or relating to Horace.
- Prosody.
- of, relating to, or resembling the poetic style or diction of Horace.
- of, relating to, or noting a Horatian ode.
Horatian
/ həˈreɪʃən /
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Horace or his poetry
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In this emblematical history of human life, he has taken his subjects from Horace; but certainly his conceptions are not Horatian.
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These poems treated not upon the pleasures of wine and love—those fruitful and ever-varying subjects of the Horatian school.
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Laboriously as he sought after perfection in his verse, he was never a master of the Horatian phrase.
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His acquaintance with the Latin poets was limited, and seldom does a Virgilian or Horatian expression occur in his verses.
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Wyatt was the first and last who succeeded in the genial, natural Horatian style.
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