Example sentences for: horatius

How can you use “horatius” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He can isolate his every sensation, indulge his every impulse, in the untested space on either side of the n and the l . He identifies himself as a Roman Catholic--not because he is one (his family is nondenominationally Christian) but "because of Rome, because of Horatius and his two comrades, swords in their hands, crested helmets on their heads, indomitable courage in their glance, defending the bridge ...

  • The bathetic discovery that Roman Catholicism has little to do with Horatius has no effect on his philosophy of life (asked to choose between the Russians and the Americans, he chooses the Russians as he chose Rome, because of the letter r , "particularly the capital R , the strongest of all letters"); but there's a larger reality that will not be ignored: the fact that he, thinking only of Leonidas at Thermopylae, has by his choice of faiths isolated himself in a Protestant-majority school.


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