Volume 8

A new general biographical dictionary / projected and partly arranged by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose.

  • Rose, Hugh James, 1795-1838.
Date:
1853
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    sterdam, 1834, who has discussed, in his Introduction, the date and authorship of the work. Suidas does not ascribe it to Horus Apollo; and Fabricius is of opinion that it is the production of an earlier writer of the same name. HORATIUS, (Quintus Flaccus,) was born at Venusium, a frontier town of Lueania, December 8, u.c. 688, (66 b.c.) His father, a freedtnan, and a collector of auction-dues, removed him, in his eleventh or twelfth year, to Rome, where he had the advantage of the instruction of the best masters, and particularly of Orbilius Papillus; and when he was about eighteen, he was sent to Athens, where he acquired all the accomplish- ments that a polite education could bestow. Here he made the acquaintance of Brutus, who, on the breaking out of the civil war, promoted him to the rank of a military tribune. But he did not distinguish himself for courage, as at the battle of Philippi he left the field and fled, after he had shamefully flung away his shield. He now returned to Rome, and, having lost his fortune by confiscation, he applied himself to poetry, in which he succeeded so well, that he soon made him- self known to some of the greatest wits in Rome. Virgil and Varius recommended him to Maecenas, who grew so fond of him, that he pleaded for him to Augus- tus, and succeeded in getting his estate restored. Augustus, highly pleased with his merit and address, admitted him to a close familiarity with him in his private hours, and afterwards made him no small offers of preferment, all of which the poet had the greatness of mind to decline. Suetonius tells us that, with a view to his support, he purchased a clerk- ship in the treasury. He thenceforth resided principally at Rome, or at his country-house in the Sabine valley, which had been given him by Maecenas. He also had, in the latter part of his life, another country residence at Tibur, or, as it is now called, Tivoli. He died on the 27th November, b.c. 8, when he had nearly completed his fifty-eighth year. Horace, although not a philosopher in the strictest sense, discovered an inclina- tion for the Epicurean philosophy during the greatest part of his life; but at the latter end of it he seems to have leaned a little towards the Stoic. He was of a cheerful temper, fond of ease and liberty, and went pretty far into the gallantries of his times, until he advanced in years. Dacier has very justly said that he was a poet in his philosophy, and a philosopher 371 in his poetry. The following are the best editions of Horace:—Lambinus, 1561; Heinsius, 1629; Bentley, 1711; Bur- mann, 1713; Sanadon, 1728; Mitscher- lich, 1800; the edition of Baxter, edited by Gesner and Zeune, frequently printed; Doring, 1828-9; Braunhard, 1833. The fourth book of Odes, b.c. 17—15; the second book of Epistles and the Epistle to the Pisos, called De Arte Poetica, were written last, but at what period is uncer- tain. The works of Horace were printed in the order pointed out by Bentley, by the Rev. James Tate, under the title of Horatius Restitutus, or the Books of Horace arranged in chronological order, Camb. 1832, second edit. 1837, with a preliminary dissertation. HOltBERY, (Matthew,) a learned divine, was born in 1707 at Haxay, in Lincolnshire, of which parish his father was vicar. He received his earlier edu- cation at Epworth, and at Gainsborough, and was then entered of Lincoln college, Oxford, where he obtained a small exhi- bition, but afterwards was elected to a fellowship of Magdalen. He then took orders, and attracted the notice of Dr. Smallbroke, bishop of Lichfield, who appointed him his chaplain, and collated him successively to the vicarage of Eccleshall, and the curacy of Gnosall, to which were added a canonry of Lichfield, and the vicarage of Hanhury. He was afterwards promoted by his col- lege to the rectory of Stanlake, where he died, in 1773. In early life he was a coadjutor of Waterland in his controversy on the Trinity; and wrote, in 1735, Anim- adversions upon a late Pamphlet, en- titled, Christian Liberty asserted, &c. About this time, bishop Hoadly made some advances to him, to which he paid no attention, as he greatly disapproved his notions. By desire, he published three occasional sermons; but his prin- cipal work was his treatise on the Eter- nity of Hell Torments, which appeared in 1744, and was written at the solicitation of bishop Smallbroke. After his death a volume of his Sermons was published. HOllMAN, (William,) a native of Salisbury, educated at Winchester School, and at New college, Oxford, of which he became fellow. He was in 1485 made master of Eton, of which he afterwards became fellow and vice-provost. He died in 1535. He was a good botanist as well as an able divine, and published, Ilerba- rum Synonyma, and also Indices to the writers De Re Rustiest. HORMISDAS, a pope, and saint of B B 2