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See Horus. IMG:content-0611.png:[blocks in formation] friend of Altamont. Horatius Cocles (hō-rā'shi-us koʻklēz). [L., 'One-eyed Horatius.'] A Roman legendary hero, celebrated with his two companions for the defense of the bridge over the Tiber against the Etruscans. He is the subject of a poem by Macaulay. Horb (horb). A town in Würtemberg, situated on the Neckar 33 miles southwest of Stuttgart. Horbury (hôr'bur-i). A town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Population (1891), 5,673. Hörde (her'de). A manufacturing town in the province of Westphalia, Pru ia, 3 miles south- east of Dortmund. Population (1890), 16,346. Horeb (hoʻreb). See Sinai . Horgen (hor'gen). A town in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, situated on the Lake of Zurich 9 miles south by east of Zurich. Popu- lati on (1888), 5,518. Horgos (hor'gosh). A town in the county of Csongrád, Hungary, 15 miles east of There sien- stadt. Population (1890), 5,503. Horicon (hor'i-kon). See George , Lake . Hormakhu (hor-mäʻkhô). In Egyptian my- thology, the rising sun, one of the principal forms of the sun-god Ra, worshiped at Heli- opolis, and represented by the great sphinx on the southeast corner of the great pyramid at Gizeh. Also Harmachis , Harnais , Har . Hormayr (hor'mir), Baron Joseph von. Born at Innsbruck, Tyrol, Jan. 20, 1782: died at Mu- nich, Nov. 5, 1848. A noted German historian. He wrote "Kritisch-diplomat is che Beiträge zur Geschichte Tirols im Mit tel alter (1802-03), "Geschichte der gefürsteten Grafschaft Tirol" (1806-08), "Lebensbilder aus dem Be- freiungskriege" (1841-44), etc. Hormisdas (hôr-mis'das). Pope 514-523. He ef- fected the reunion of the churches of Rome and Constantinople in 519. Hormizdas (hôr-miz'das), or Hormuz (hor'- muz), IV. Killed about 591. King of Persia, son of Khosru I. whom he succeeded in 579. Horn (horn), Cape. The southern end of a rocky island in the Fuegian Archipelago, and the southernmost point of America, lat. 55° 59′ S., long. 67° 16' W. It was first rounded by Le Maire and Schouten in 1616, and named by them from Hoorn in North Holland. Hor (hôr). A mountain in Arabia Petræa, by Horn (horn), Count Gustaf. Born at Örbyhus, some authorities identified with the modern Jebel-Nebi-Harûn (4,360 feet). It was the scene of the death of Aaron. Horace (hor'ās) (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). Born at Venusia, Apulia, Dec. 8, 65 в. с.: died at Rome, Nov. 27,8 B. c. A famous Roman lyric and satirical poet. He was the son of a freedman; was educated at Rome and Athens; served in the republican army at Philippi in 42 B. C.; and enjoyed the patronage of Mæcenas, by whom he was presented with a farm or villa in the Sabine Hills about 34. His works are "Satires" (first book 35 B. C., second book about 30), "Epodes" (about 30), "Odes" (first 3 books 24 or 23, fourth book about 13), "Epistles" (first book about 20, second book and the "Ars Poe tic a" about 13-3), and "Carmen Seculare" (17). Collective editions have been published by Bentley (1711), Meineke, Haupt, L. Müller, Orelli, etc. Horace (o-räs'). A tragedy by Pierre Corneille, produced in 1640: its subject is the combat of the Horatii and Curiatii. Lope de Vega wrote a tragedy with the same subject and title. Horace de Saint-Aubin. One of Balzac's early pseudonyms. Horæ (ho'rē). [Gr. Ώραι, L. Horæ , hours.] In cla ical mythology, godde es who preside over the changes of the seasons and the accompany ing course of natural growth and decay. According to Homer, they are handmaidens of Zeus, who guard the gates of heaven and control the weather; according to Hesiod, they are daughters of Zeus and Them is, named Eunomia ('Good Order'), Dice ('Justice'), and Eirene ('Peace'), guardians of agriculture and also of social and political order. Their number varied from two, as at Athens (Thallo, godde of spring flowers, and Carpo, godde of summer fruits), to four. The dance of the Horæ was a symbolized representation of the course of the seasons. Horatia gens (hō-rā'shiä jenz). A Roman patrician gens whose surnames were Barbatus, Cocles, and Pulvillus. Horatii (hō-ra's hi-i), The Three. In Roman legend, three brothers celebrated in the reign of Upland, Sweden, Oct. 23, 1592: died at Skara, Sweden, May 10, 1657. A Swedish general, distinguished in the Thirty Years' War. Horn, Otto. A pseudonym of Adolf Bäuerle. Hornberg (horn berg). The old castle of Götz von Berlichingen. It is situated on the Neckar, below Ha mersheim, on an elevation 200 feet above the river. Hornberg. A town in Baden, in the Black Forest 23 miles northeast of Freiburg. Horn castle (hôrn'kås-1). A town in Lincoln shire, England, situated on the Bain 18 miles east of Lincoln. Population (1891), 4,374. Horne (horn), George. Born at Otham, Kent, England, Nov. 1, 1730: died at Bath, England, Jan. 17, 1792. An English bishop, author of "Commentary on the Psalms" (1776), etc. Horne, Richard Hengist. Born at London, Jan. 1, 1803: died at Margate, England, March 13, 1884. An English poet and miscellaneous writer, author of the epic "Orion" (1843), the dramas "Cosmo de' Medici" (1837), "Death of Marlowe" (1838), "Gregory the Seventh" (1840), etc. Horne, Thomas Hart well. Born at London, 2017 at London, Jan. 27, 1862. An English biblical scholar. His chief work is an "Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures" (1818). Hornellsville (hôr'nelz-vil). A city in Steuben County, New York, situated on the Canisteo River 55 miles south of Rochester. It has car manufactures. Population (1900), 11,918. Hornemann (hor'ne-män), Fried rich Konrad. Born at Hildesheim, Germany, in 1772: died in Nupe about 1801. A noted African explorer. Under the auspices of the African A ociation of London, he cro ed the African continent from Cairo over Murzuk to the lower Niger 1798-1801. The place and the approx i mate date of his death were not ascertained until a few Horten years after he had perished. His journal was published in English, German, and French. Horner (hôr'ner), Francis. Born at Edinburgh, Aug. 12, 1778: died at Pisa, Italy, Feb. 8, 1817. A British politician and political economist. Hornet (hor'net). An American ship of war. She was of 18 guns rating and 480 tons burden. Her first commander was Captain James Lawrence. (See Ches apeake.) On Dec. 13, 1812, she blockaded the Bonne Citoyenne (18 guns rating) at San Salvador. On Feb. 24, 1813, near the mouth of the Demerara River, she fell in with the British war brigs Espingle (18 guns rating) and Peacock, and captured the Peacock. Horne Tooke, John. See Tooke . Hornisgrinde (hor'nis-grin-de). A summit of the Black Forest, Germany, about 10 miles south of Baden-Baden. Height, 3,825 feet. Horodenka (hō-rō-den kä). A town in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, situated on a tributary of the Dniester. Population (1890), 11,162. Horologium (hor-ō-lō'ji-um). [L., 'a clock.'] A southern constellation of 12 stars, inserted by Lacaille east of Eridanus. Its brightest star is of the fourth magnitude. Horrocks, or Horrox (hor'oks), Jeremiah. Born at Toxteth Park, near Liverpool, about 1617: died at Toxteth, Jan. 3, 1641. A celebrated English astronomer. He studied at Cambridge, but did not take a degree, and was curate of Hoole, near Preston, 16391640. He made the first observation of a transit of Venus (1639), an account of which is given in his "Venus in sole visa" (1662). Other posthumous works were published in 1672. He was the first to a ign to the moon an elliptical orbit with the earth at one of the foci, and in a measure anticipated the Newton i an theory of gravitation. Horsa (hor'sä). Killed at the battle of Aylesford, 455 (?). A Jutish chief, brother of Hengist (whom see). Horschelt(horʻshelt), The odor. Born at Munich, March 16,1829: died at Munich, April 3, 1871. A German painter of genre scenes and battles. Horse-Fair, The. A large painting by Rosa Bonheur, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It represents a number of horses, some ridden, some led, trotting toward the right. It appeared in the Salon of 1853, was bought by Gambart and Co., London, for 40,000 francs, and from them by W. P. Wright, Weehawken, New Jersey, in 1857: it then pa ed to the Stewart collection. It was bought and presented to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, by Cornel i us Vanderbilt. Landseer engraved it while it was in Gambart's po e ion. Rosa Bonheur painted for his use a reduced copy: this was bequeathed in 1859 to the National Gallery. She painted other replicas: the third is in London; the fourth, a small water-color, is owned in England. Hörselberg (her's el-berg). See Venus , Mountain of , and Tannhäuser . Horse-Shoe Fall. See Niagara . Horse-Shoe Robinson. A historical novel by J. P. Kennedy. The scene is laid in the South during the Revolutionary War. Horsens (hor's ens). A seaport on the eastern coast of Jutland, Denmark, situated on the Horsens Fjord in lat. 55° 52′ N., long. 9° 51′ E. Population (1890), 17,290. Horsford (hors ford), Eben Norton. Born at Moscow, Livings ton County, N.Y., July 27, 1818: died Jan. 1, 1893. An American chemist. He was Rumford profe or of science applied to the arts at Harvard 1847-63, when he became president of the Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, Rhode Island. He discovered the method of preparing baking-powder, condensed milk, and the medicinal acid known as "Horsford's acid." Among his works are "The Theory and Art of Bread Making" (1861), "The Discovery of America by the North men" (1888), etc. Horsham (hor's ham). A town in Su ex, England, 34 miles south-southwest of London. Pop ulation (1891), 8,637. Horsley (hors'li), Charles Edward. Born at London, 1822: died at New York, Feb. 28, 1876. An English composer, son of William Horsley. Horsley, John. Born at Inveresk, Mid loth i an, 1685: died at Morpeth, England, Jan. 12, 1732. A British antiquary, author of "Britannia Romana, or the Antiquities of Britain" (1732), etc. Horsley, John Call cott. Born Jan. 29, 1817: died Oct. 19, 1903. An English painter. Horsley, Samuel. Born at London, Sept. 15, 1733: died at Brighton, England, Oct. 4,1806. An English bishop (of St. Asaph) and scholar. He is notable for a controversy with Priest ley, in which he opposed Soc in i an ism. Among his works are "Biblical Criticism on the first fourteen Historical Books of the Old Testament" (1820). Horsley, William. Born at London, Nov. 15, 1774: died June 12, 1858. An English composer, especially noted for his glees ("By Celia's Arbour," "O Nightingale," etc.). Horta (hor'tä; Pg. pron. ōr'tä). A seaport, the capital of Fayal, Azores Islands. Horten (hor'ten). A town in southern Norway, on the western bank of the Christiania Fjord, 36 miles south by west of Christiania: a station of the Norwegian fleet. Population (1891), 6,555, Hortense Hortense (or-tons') (Eugénie Hortense de Beau harn a is). Born at Paris, April 10, 1783: died at Arenenberg, Switzerland, Oct. 5, 1837. The daughter of the empre Josephine, wife of Louis Bonaparte, and mother of Napoleon III. She was the reputed author of the song “Partant pour la Syrie." Hortensia gens (hôr-ten's hi-ä jenz). A Roman plebeian gens. Hortensian Law (hôr-ten's hi an lâ), The. [L. lex Hortensia .] In the history of ancient Rome, a law, adopted probably in 286 B. c., which decided that the decrees of the Comitia Tributa should be binding on all citizens, patricians as well as plebeians. It was pa ed in consequence of a dangerous uprising of the plebeians, and received its name 'from the dictator Hortensius. Hortensio (hôr-ten's hi-o). In Shakspere's Hortensius (hôr-ten's hi-us), Quintus. Born 114 в.с.: died 50 B. c. An eminent Roman orator, a leader of the aristocratic party. "Taming of the Shrew," a suitor of Hortibonus (hôr-ti-bo'nus), or Hortusbonus (hôr-tus-bō'nus), Is. The pseudonym of Isaac Casaubon. Caseau in the Dauphin ois patois being jardin , the pseudonym is literally "bon jardin" ('good garden'). Horus (ho'rus), or Hor (hôr). In Egyptian mythology, a solar deity, the son of Osiris and Isis, and the avenger of his father upon Set: called by the Greeks Harpocrates. As Osiris was the sun of night, Horus was the sun of day. As the opponent of Set, he figured as the Elder Horus; as Horus the Child, he was the rising sun. He was generally represented as hawk headed, and is hardly distinguishable from Ra, like whom he was the lord of Upper Egypt.