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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Horatian¹

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

Example Sentences

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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