Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 b.c., Roman poet and satirist.
a male given name.
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How to use Horace in a sentence
He told Horace that he just wanted to speak to me for a second, and then right in front of everyone, he asked me if I would do a recording with him.
Lee Morgan’s ‘Live at the Lighthouse’ was a masterpiece that turned out to be a farewell | Shannon J. Effinger | August 27, 2021 | Washington PostIn between cons and cat burglaries, Horace and Jasper notice Estella’s talents for making clothes.
Counterpoint: Disney’s Girlboss ‘Cruella’ Actually Rules | Kevin Fallon | May 28, 2021 | The Daily BeastHorace and Violet Saunders, both 96, died days apart after a 75-year love story.
More than 10,000 people in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have died of covid-19 | Rebecca Tan | December 10, 2020 | Washington PostHorace, an all-star, won three championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.
He Wanted to Fix Rural America’s Broken Nursing Homes. Now, Taxpayers May Be on the Hook for $76 Million. | by Max Blau for Georgia Health News | September 22, 2020 | ProPublicaTell me something interesting—preferably funny—about Horace Greeley.
In any case, she was a looker and Horace—with his blue eyes and his sweet-talking ways—won her over.
Old pictures of the couple show Horace decked out in a three-piece suit and diamond rings and Margaret swaddled in furs.
Horace had been playing poker with a mortician, who had put the car up as collateral.
Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.
Christopher Smart, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died; known by a popular translation of Horace.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellHorace Bianchon was a brilliant and inspiring conversationalist.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheHorace combats this prejudice with equal force and address in his fine epistle to Augustus.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)You have intelligence and powers of invention, as Virgil and Horace had; but perhaps it is not absolutely the same intelligence.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)The Odes of Horace have never been transcended, and will probably remain through all ages the delight of scholars.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John Lord
British Dictionary definitions for Horace
/ (ˈhɒrɪs) /
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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Cultural definitions for Horace
An ancient Roman poet, known for his odes. Horace insisted that poetry should offer both pleasure and instruction.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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