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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Horatius (Horatius Cocles) , legendary Roman hero. With two companions he held Lars Porsena's Etruscan army at bay while the Romans cut down the Sublician Bridge (connecting Rome with the road westward) behind them. Horatius swam the Tiber River to safety and received as much land as he could plow around in a day. Horatius is the subject of the most popular poem in Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome (1842). Author not available, HORATIUS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Horatius
Horatius ♂ An old Roman family name, which is of obscure, possibly Etruscan, origin. Its most famous bearer was the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8 bc), generally known in English as Horace...popular, the exploit of an early Roman hero, recounting ‘How Horatius kept the ... Read more

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 bc), Latin poet. Like his friend Virgil , he joined in celebrating the restoration of order after the civil... Read more

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