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Mountain s. of Dead Sea and nearly 6,000 ft. above it, up which Aaron went to die. It is a steep and irregular trun Mount Hor. cated cone, having three peaks on the n., in the loftiest of which is a grotto, the reputed tomb of Aaron. Altitude 4,360 ft. Horace, or QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS, 65-8 B.C. Latin poet, b. at Venusia, taken to Rome by his father, a freedman, who gave him the best advantages. Ab. 47 B.C. he went to Athens to complete his education, and was induced to join the army of Brutus at Philippi, but was pardoned by August us and returned to Rome. Here he became an intimate friend of the all-powerful Mæcenas, who gave him a farm in the Sabine country, which sufficed for his needs. Horace adapted the varieties of the Greek versification to the Latin language, and composed four books of odes, one of epodes, two each of satires and metrical epistles, with the Ars Poetic a . The sound common sense, wise moderation, and beautiful flow of these poems have caused them to retain great popularity, and stamp his type of genius as cosmopolitan. The Carmen Sæculare in the fourth book of the odes was composed for the great Secular Feast instituted by August us, a fact attested by an inscription recently discovered.