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* HOBJE. 211) HORITES. Hellenistic time the Hone become more closely connected with the seasons, and now the number is increased to four, eacli of whom is given at- tributes appropriate to a special season. These four Horie, however, rarely appear in literature, until the late epic of (juintus Sniyrna'us and Xonnus. The fiction of twelve Hora? for the hours of the day is also very late, and cannot bi- found in art with any certainty. Consult: Prcller- Eobert, flriichisclie Miithologie, vol. i. (Berlin, 1804), and Kapp, in Roscher, Lcxikon der griech- ischeii und romischen Mythologie (Leipzig, 1886 et sefj.). HORAPOL'LO (Lat., from Gk. 'OpoirAXXu^ Uoru]iijUOn). An Ejjj'ptian who wrote on Oreek pranniiar, probably in the fourth ccnturj- a.d. He lived in Alexandria and at Constantinople, and wrote cptian of one Horapollo, or possibly Horus. which' gives this name impor- tance, and which has some value to the Egyptol- ogist. The best edition of the work on hiero- glyphics is by Ix'cmans (Amsterdam, 18.35). HORATU, hfi-ra'shi-I. Three Roman brothers, born at one birth, cousins to the Curiatii. of Alba, also three brothers born at one time. Their mothers were twins, who had been married on the same day, and given birth to their sons at the same time. During the Roman wars, when Cluilius, the Alban King, and TuUus Ilostilius. the Roman King, were in conflict, it was decided to leave the issue to a personal combat between these brothers. Two of the Horatii were soon slain, and the third brother, feigning flight, was pursued by the Curiatii. all wounded, whom he slew one by one. The sister of the Horatii was betrothed to one of the Curiatii. and had made for him a beautiful mantle. As the victor en- tered the gate of Rome bearing his spoils, he was met by his sister, who, upon recognizing the cloak in her brother's hands, broke out in lamentations. Enraged that .she should prefer her lover to her count rj', her brother slew her on the spot, and her body remained unburicd until passers-by covered it with stones. He was condenmed to be scourged to death, but was afterwards pardoned. The storv is given by Livy (T. 24) : behind the pure myth lies the fact of the close union in early times l)etwepn Rome and Alba Longa, and the later subjection of the latter. The famois Horatius (Coclcs) who. with Titus Herminius and Spurius Lartius in B.C. .507, so gallantly defended the bridge against the army of Lars Porsena. King of Clusium. while their companions broke down the Sublioian bridge be- hind them, was a worthy descendant of the sur- vivor of the three Horatii. HORATIO, hfi-ra'shrr.. (1) Tn Shakespeare's Bamht, a character who in his philosophical attitude toward varying fortunes forms an ad- mirable foil to his morbid and introspective friend Hamlet. (2) Ttie friend of Lord Alta- mont in Rowe's Fair Prnitfnt. He informs Alta- mont of Calista's seduction by Lothario, and the latter is killed in the duel which ensues. BORDE, her'd'-. A town of the Prussian Province of Westphalia, situated on the Emsche, two miles by rail from Dortmund (Map: Prussia, G^. B 3). In the vicinity are productive iron and coal mines, and the town has important indus- tries connected with the working of iron. Popu- lation, in 1890, lG.34ti; in lOOH, 25,120. HORDEIN, hor'dfin (from Lat. hordcum, barley). A substance that can be extracted from barley. It is merely a mixture of starch, cellu- lose, and a little nitrogenous matter. HORDE'OLUM. Sec Stte. HOR'DETJM. Sec B.bi£Y. HOREB, ho'rf-b. Sec Sixai. HORE'HOUND (AS. /i.iWiiJHC.from hir.hoar + hthii, noarhound), M<trrubium. A genus of plants of the natural order LabiatiB. The spe- cies are mostly herbaceous per- ennials, natives of the south of Europe and the East. One spe- cies, the common or white hore- hound (Marrii- bium viilgare) . is found generally throughout Eu- rope, except ill the more north- ern regions, and in the United States, growing in waste place*, waysides, etc. It is about I to I'-j feet high, bushy, with roundish, ovate, erenate. wrinkled leaves, and almost globose whorls of white flowers. The whole plant has a whitish appearance, from the down with which its leaves are covered. It has an aromatic but not very agreeable smell. It is tonic, stimulant, and laxative, and is popularly and cfllcaciously used for coughs, as an infusion, as a syrup with sugar, or as a candy. In Eng- land the name horehound is applied also to an- other plant. liuJlotn nigra, sometimes called black or fetid horehound. a fetid plant, also of the order Labiata". and of a genus very closely allied to Marnibium. It closely resembles the white horehound in taste, and possesses similar medi- cal properties. A third British plant. Liimpun Kuropwus, a diandrous plant of the same natural order, is sometimes called waterhorehound, and is also known as g^-psyvvort. All these species have been introduced in the L'nited States, and, in addition, six or eight species of Lycopus, or water-horchound. are rathcf abundant. HORGEN, h.*ir'gcn- A town in Switzerland, on Lake Ziirirh. 10 miles south of Zilrich (^lap: Switzerland. CI). It is a thriving industrial centre, with manufactures of eotton and silk goods, and chemicals. Population, in 1888, 5510: in 1000. fiSS3. HORICON. The Indian name of Lake George. HOTIITES. .^n ancient people who dwelt in and around Mount Seir before the Edomites came there (T. Chron. i. 38-42). Biblical tradi- tion preserves a recollection that the Horitcs formed a group of seven tribes (Gen. xxxvi. 20- BOREDOCND.