Horace

[ hawr-is, hor- ]

noun

1. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 b.c., Roman poet and satirist.
2. a male given name.

Horace

/ ˈhɒrɪs /

noun

1. Horace65 bc8 bcMRomanWRITING: poetWRITING: satirist 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

Horace

1. An ancient Roman poet, known for his odes . Horace insisted that poetry should offer both pleasure and instruction.

Example Sentences

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.

From Washington Post

In between cons and cat burglaries, Horace and Jasper notice Estella’s talents for making clothes.

From The Daily Beast

Horace and Violet Saunders, both 96, died days apart after a 75-year love story.

From Washington Post

Horace, an all-star, won three championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.

From ProPublica

Tell me something interesting—preferably funny—about Horace Greeley.

From The Daily Beast

In any case, she was a looker and Horace—with his blue eyes and his sweet-talking ways—won her over.

From The Daily Beast

Old pictures of the couple show Horace decked out in a three-piece suit and diamond rings and Margaret swaddled in furs.

From The Daily Beast

Horace had been playing poker with a mortician, who had put the car up as collateral.

From The Daily Beast

Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.

From The Daily Beast

Christopher Smart, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died; known by a popular translation of Horace.

From Project Gutenberg

Horace Bianchon was a brilliant and inspiring conversationalist.

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Horace combats this prejudice with equal force and address in his fine epistle to Augustus.

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You have intelligence and powers of invention, as Virgil and Horace had; but perhaps it is not absolutely the same intelligence.

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The Odes of Horace have never been transcended, and will probably remain through all ages the delight of scholars.

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