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Horatian, a. (n.)|hɒˈreɪʃ(ɪ)ən|
[ad. L. Horātiān-us, f. Horāti-us gentile name of the poet Horace.]
a. Belonging to or characteristic of the Latin poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, b.c. 65–8), or his poetry. So Hoˈratianism.
b. as n. The language of Horace.
1750C. Smart (title) The Horatian canons of friendship. Being the third satire of the first book of Horace imitated. 1850Thackeray Pendennis II. iii. 25 According to the Horatian maxim, a work of art ought to lie ripening (a maxim, the truth of which may, by the way, be questioned altogether). 1851Tennyson in Life (1897) I. 341 A far-off echo of the Horatian Alcaic. 1891S. Mostyn Curatica 10 He capped my verse instantaneously, and for the next half-hour we conversed in Horatian. 1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place xi. 492 It is wrong to live in accordance with the Horatian ethics. 1936F. R. Leavis Revaluation iv. 137 [Matthew] Green, in his Horatianism, is a good positive Augustan. 1945Auden Coll. Poetry 121 The bland Horatian life of friends and wine. 1964English Studies XLV. (Suppl.) 217 It shows a deeply felt appreciation of ethical norms, a truly English horatianism that Cobbett, for all his lack of a classical education, inherited from the eighteenth century. 1965B. Sweet-Escott Baker Street Irreg. 14 Others may wonder whether such a book ought to have been published, even after an interval which now exceeds the Horatian decade. |