Horatius: translation
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Latin: an old Roman family name, which is of obscure, possibly Etruscan, origin. Its most famous bearer by far was the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8 BC), gene ly nown in English as HORACE (SEE Horace). From the mid-19th century, the name has occasionally been used by English speakers in its original Latin form. This probably owes more to the Lays of Ancient Rome (1842) by Thomas Babbington Macaulay than to the poet Horace. Macaulay relates, in verse that was once popular, the exploit of an early Roman hero, recounting ‘How Horatius kept the bridge’.