Horae

[hawr-ee, hohr-ee]

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

1. goddesses of the seasons, of cyclical death and rebirth, and sometimes of social order, usually given as three in number, with the names Dike (Justice), Eunomia (Order), and Irene (Peace).

Horae

/ ˈhɔːriː /

plural noun

1. Also called: the Hours. classical myth the goddesses of the seasons

Word History and Origins

Origin of Horae¹

From the Latin word Hōrae literally, hours

Word History and Origins

Origin of Horae¹

Latin: hours

Example Sentences

Hammond's sensibilities were already apparent in Szymanowski's Métopes, Op.29 and Satie's three Gnossiennes, but it was in the premiere of Kenneth Hesketh's Horae that she showed serious mettle.

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The seasons of vacation he would often spend collating ancient manuscripts in the Vatican library, and one of the fruits of that labor was his Horae Syriacae, published when he was only twenty-five years old.

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As a student of ancient Teutonic literature Hoffmann von Fallersleben ranks among the most persevering and cultivated of German scholars, some of the chief results of his labours being embodied in his Horae Belgicae, Fundgruben f�r Geschichte deutscher Sprache und Literatur, Altdeutsche Bl�tter, Spenden zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte and Findlinge.

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Order and regularity being indispensable conditions of beauty, it was easy to conceive of the Horae as the goddesses of youthful bloom and grace, inseparably associated with the idea of springtime.

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In later mythology, under Alexandrian influence, the Horae become the four seasons, daughters of Helios and Selene, each represented with the conventional attributes.

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