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 816 HOK^E HORIZON Poetica, are the most perfect of his poems, fully exhibiting his terseness and elegance of style, and abounding in wise thoughts and just sen- timents on manners and society, which have made Horace the favorite companion not only of scholars but of men of the world, the most read, best remembered, and most frequently quoted of all the writers of antiquity. Among the editions of Horace are those of Lambinus (1561), Torrentius(1608), Heinsius(1612), Bent- ley (1711), Burmann (1713), Sanadon (1728), Doring (1803), Anthon, with English notes (New York, 1830), Orelli (Zurich, 1837), Lin- coln (Boston, 1851), Bitter (Leipsic, 1855), LMdot (Paris, 1855), and Wickham (London, 1873). Translations of his works have been made into nearly all European languages, but there is no good English version of his com- plete writings. The free metrical translations of several of the odes and satires by Dry- den, Pope, Swift, and others, are excellent. A collection of translations by Ben Jonson, Cowley, Milton, Dryden, Addison, Pope, Chat- terton, Byron, &c., was published by Valpy as an appendix to the translation of the works of Horace by the Rev. Philip Francis (2 vols. London, 1831). The odes have also been ren- dered into English lyric verse by Newman (1853), Robinson (1844-'59), Lord Ravensworth (1858), Theodore Martin (1860), Conington (1863), and Lord Lytton (1869); and into French by Count Simeon (1874). Conington published a translation of the satires and epis- tles in 1869. Among prose versions is one by J. Lonsdale and S. Lee (London, 1873). IIOK E (Gr. T flpa, Lat. Hora, hours), in classi- cal mythology, the goddesses of the order of na- ture. In Homer they are the ministers of Zeus, guardians of the gates of Olympus, and rulers of the clouds and weather. In Hesiod they are the daughters of Zeus and Themis (Jus- tice), who provide not only the fruits in their season, but give to a state good laws, justice, and peace. They are usually mentioned in con- nection with the graces and the nymphs as at- tendants on the Olympian divinities, adorned with wreaths of flowers, and bringing bless- ings to men. Their number was indefinite ; in Athens two only were worshipped, Thallo and Carpo, the Horse of spring and of the harvest season. On works of art they appear as bloom- ing maidens, carrying the products of the sea- sons. The Hora of spring, the Chloris of the Greeks and Flora of the Romans, is especially celebrated in sculptures as the attendant of Venus rising from the sea, and of Proserpine on her ascent from the lower world. IIOREB. See SINAI. IIOREHOUND (Ang. Sax. Jiora, hoary, and hune, honey, a name originally applied to some related honey-bearing plant), the marrubium vulgare (Linn.), a plant of the natural order labiata. It is a native of Europe, now common in the older portions of this country in waste places and by roadsides. It is a herbaceous perennial, with four- angled stems 12 or 18 in. Horehound (Marrubium vul- gare). high, which, as well as the roughish opposite leaves, are whitish downy ; it bears in July and August white flowers in crowded axillary whorls. The herb, like many others of the same order, is remarkable for its aromatic odor and tonic properties, so that it is a favorite domestic medicine, being used in the form of a decoction, in a sirup, and in candy, and especial- ly for colds and affec- tions of the lungs. Its bitter taste is imparted to water and to alcohol. Its prolonged use is apt to derange the sto- mach. HORGM, or Hor- chen, a town of Swit- zerland, in the can- ton and 7 m. S. of the city of Zurich, on the W. bank of the lake of Zurich ; pop. in 1870, 5,199. It is a com- mon starting point for those wishing to ascend the Rigi ; has a beautiful church, and manufac- tories of silk and cotton goods and of chemicals. HORITES, the aboriginal inhabitants of Mount Seir. It is thought that they formed part of the rac$ to which the Zuzims, the Rephaim, and Emim belonged, and inhabited Mount Seir before the Canaanites took possession of Palestine. Their name, which is derived from Hori, the grandson of Seir (Gen. xxxvi. 22), was descriptive of their habits as cave-dwell- ers. Their excavated dwellings are still found in hundreds in the sandstone cliffs and moun- tains of Edom, and especially ia Petra. They are cut in the natural rock, some of them having rude arches carved over the doorways ; and some are inhabited now, as they have been apparently by generation after generation. The genealogy of the Horites is twice given in the Scriptures, which say that they were di- vided into seven tribes. They were among the nations smitten by the kings of the east in the time of Abraham, and were superseded, or perhaps supplanted and absorbed, by the Edom- ites, who adopted their habits. HORIZON (Gr. tpifav, from dpi&iv, to bound or define), the line that apparently separates earth and sky. In astronomy, the apparent horizon is a plane tangent to the earth at the observer, and the real horizon is a plane through the centre of the earth parallel to the apparent horizon. The artificial horizon is a horizontal mirror, usually the surface of a ba- sin of mercury. Half the angular distance be- tween a star and its image seen in the artificial horizon is equal to the altitude of the star above the real horizon.