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Horatian

[ huh-rey-shuhn, haw-, hoh- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Horace.
  2. Prosody.
    1. of, relating to, or resembling the poetic style or diction of Horace.
    2. of, relating to, or noting a Horatian ode.


Horatian

/ həˈreɪʃən /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Horace or his poetry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Horatian1

1740–50; < Latin Horātiānus, equivalent to Horāti ( us ) Horace + -ānus -an
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Example Sentences

I am going to celebrate her here in a Horatian ode, with apologies to John Keats, the world’s most celebrated odist, the 19th-century British genius behind “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and other such works featuring insanely eccentric rhyme schemes.

In “How the Classics Made Shakespeare,” Jonathan Bate — provost of Worcester College, Oxford, as well as a scholar of remarkable industry — probes what one might call the Ovidian, Virgilian, Horatian, Ciceronian, Plutarchan and Senecan undergirdings to the many Shakespearean works with strong classical associations.

Horatian satire, named after Horace, is low-key, mild and designed not to really get anyone’s knickers in a twist.

From Salon

The Sonnets were followed, at an Horatian interval, by other poems hardly of an inferior quality: such, for instance, as his "Hope, an Allegorical Sketch"—"St. Michael's Mount"—"Coombe Ellen"—and "Grave of Howard."

In fact, he is known for being a master of two styles of satire; the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.

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