Horace

J. L. David “The Oath of Horatius” (1784)

Horace ( lat. Horatii ) is a patrician clan in ancient Rome , among the representatives of which the following personalities are most known:

• Three twin brothers from the Horace family who resolved the dispute over the predominance of Rome over Alba Longa by a victory in a duel with three twin brothers, Curia - see Horace and Curia ;
• Marc Horace Pulvill - one of the founders of the Roman Republic, consul in 509 and 507 BC. e .;
• Publius Horace Kokles , nicknamed the One-Eyed Serpent - became famous during the attack of the Etruscans on Rome in the VI century BC. e. According to ancient legend, it alone restrained the onslaught of enemies until the bridge over the Tiber was destroyed;
• Mark Horace Barbat - Consul in 449 BC e .;
• Mark Horace Pulville - military stands in 378 BC e .;
• Quintus Horace Flaccus ( December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC) is a poet of the "golden age" of Roman literature , whose work fell on the era of civil wars of the end of the Republic and the first decades of the new regime of Octavian Augustus.