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Horatius ' father, also called Publius, spoke to the people of his son's recent victory, and entreated them not to render him childless since he had, until recently, had four children.
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Horatius and father
The painting shows the three sons of Horatius swear on their swords, held by their father, that they will defend Rome to the death.
Horatius and also
The veiled head of Horatius could also be explained as an apotropaic device if one considers the tigillum the iugum of Juno, the feminine principle of fecundity.
Horatius nominated Cincinnatus for a dictatorial term ( also known as Magister Populi or " Master of the People ") for six months.
It is also known as the tune of Es lebe hoch der Zimmermannsgeselle and of Lauriger Horatius.
It is normally sung to the tune of " Lauriger Horatius " ( better known as the German-language carol " O Tannenbaum ", also used for the state song of Maryland ) though Connell had wanted it sung to " The White Cockade ", an old Scottish Jacobite song.
Lyrics were often also adapted from works of famous hymnal writers including Philip P. Bliss, Horatius Bonar, Fanny Crosby, Philip Doddridge, Thomas Hastings, John Newton, Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley.
Horatius and called
" They called on Horatius to retreat but perceiving the tactical difficulty of allowing the enemy to cross he stood his ground, directing them to tell the consuls to tear up the bridge.
Horatius and Publius
Publius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the ancient Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Lars Porsena, king of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium.
Perceiving the danger, three officers ( of noble rank ) stood shoulder-to-shoulder to allow their own troops to pass and block the passage of the enemy: Spurius Lartius and Titus Herminius Aquilinus, commanders of the right wing ( equivalent to colonels or lieutenant generals ), and Publius Horatius, a more junior officer of unspecified rank.
* Publius Horatius Cocles, hero who defended the Sublician Bridge against the army of Lars Porsena.
According to tradition it was a rite of purification that served at the expiation of Publius Horatius who had murdered his own sister when he saw her mourning the death of her betrothed Curiatius.
The legend of Publius Horatius Cocles at the bridge appears in many classical authors, most notably in Livy.
Horatius and people
" For the murder, he was condemned to death but, upon the advice of a certain jurist named Tullus, Horatius appealed to the assembly of the people.
Persuaded by his father's arguments, the people acquitted Horatius.
The Roman courts condemned the Horatius to death for the murder despite his service, and it was only his father's appeal to the people that saved him.
Horatius and victory
When the victorious Horatius returned carrying the spoils of victory, his sister cried out in grief because she realized the Curiatius to whom she had been engaged was dead.
Horatius and them
The most famous of them, Horatius, concerns the heroism of Horatius Cocles.
This enabled Horatius to slay them one by one.
Horatius and him
Wounded as he was Horatius was honorably crowned and conducted into the city by a singing crowd while the populace streamed into the streets to see him.
Horatius calls him king of the Dacians.
In an ode dedicated to his protector, Horatius advises him not to worry about Rome's safety, because Cotiso's army had perished.
Horatius and had
Meanwhile letters had arrived from the revolutionary committee and were read to the troops by Herminius and Horatius.
The Romans had to face one intervention by the Etruscans ( Horatius Cocles ) and another by the Latin League ( Battle of Lake Regillus ).
He was a patrician, and the nephew of consul Marcus Horatius Pulvillus and had lost an eye in a previous battle ( hence his agnomen " Cocles ".
" Though Horatius did not perish in the river, the disability he suffered ( and subsequent honorable discharge from the army ) ended the life he had previously pursued.
She taught school for a time before marrying in 1902 Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, whom she had met in college ; they had three children, Paul Caraway, Forrest, and Robert ; Paul and Forrest became Generals in the United States Army.
Horatius Bonar added a few thrilling words and then Moody asked Mr. Sankey if he had a final song.
The painting depicts the Roman Horatius family, who, according to Titus Livius ' Ab Urbe Condita ( From the Founding of the City ) had been chosen for a ritual duel against three members of the Curiatii, a family from Alba Longa, in order to settle disputes between the Romans and the latter city.
Originally David had intended to depict this episode, and a drawing survives showing the surviving Horatius raising his sword, with his sister lying dead.
Horatius and four
In November 1659 the burgomaster of Amsterdam contracted with Flinck for 12 canvases to represent four heroic figures of David and Samson and Manius Curius Dentatus and Horatius Cocles, and scenes from the Batavians and Romans.
Horatius and children
The background woman in black holds two children — one of whom is the child of a Horatius male and his Curiatii wife.
Horatius and .
Hearing of the doings at Rome the king, his sons and a party of retainers rode posthaste for the city, leaving Titus Herminius and Marcus Horatius in command of the troops at Ardea.
Omaha: Horatius Press.
It was in accordance with this direction that the consul Horatius dedicated the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in the year following the expulsion of the kings ; from the Consuls the ceremony of fastening the nails passed to the Dictators, because they possessed greater authority.
This animated depiction shows the phases of the battle, including the defense of the bridge by Horatius.
Horatius was now disabled and could not by law remain in the army or hold public office.
Polybius ' brief notice of the story uses Horatius as an example of the men who have " devoted themselves to inevitable death ... to save the lives of other citizens.
Horatius ' action at the bridge halted the Etruscan attack and forced Lars Porsena to engage in a protracted siege of Rome rather than sacking it outright, which was later concluded by peace treaty with the city intact.
" Florus has something similar to say: " It was on this occasion that those three prodigies and marvels of Rome made their appearance, Horatius, Mucius and Cloelia, who, were they not recorded in our annals, would seem fabulous characters at the present day.
The story is retold in Horatius from the Lays of Ancient Rome by Lord Macaulay, a poem of great popularity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
* Vulcanal, a statue in honor of Horatius Cocles was said to have been set up here.
Festus and other ancient authors explain Curiatius by the aetiological legend of the Tigillum, the expiation undergone by P. Horatius when victorious over the Alban Curiatii, for the murder of his own sister, by walking under a beam with his head veiled.
This rite was supposed to commemorate the expiation of the murder of his own sister by Marcus Horatius.
Thence the analogy with the rite of the Tigillum Sororium would be apparent: both in the myth and in the rite Janus, the god of motion, goes through a low passage to attain Carna as Horatius passes under the tigillum to obtain his purification and the restitution to the condition of citizen eligible for civil activities, including family life.
b ) The Tigillum Sororium would be related to a cult of wood of the Horatii, as shown by the episodes of the pons sublicius defended by Horatius Cocles and of the posts of the main entrance of the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, on which Marcus Horatius Pulvillus lay his hand during the dedication rite.
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