title: Horatius
text: # Horatius
  
  Horatius may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  ### Roman era
  
  * several ancient Roman men of the gens Horatia, including:
     * Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the poet known in English as Horace
     * one of the Horatii, three members of the gens Horatia who fought to the death against the Curiatii
     * Marcus Horatius Pulvillus, consul in 509 and 507 BC
     * Horatius Cocles, hero who defended the Sublician Bridge
     * Marcus Horatius Barbatus, consul in 449 BC
  
  ### Post-Roman era
  
  * Horatius Acquaviva d'Aragona (d.1617), an Italian prelate
  * Horatius Paulijn (1644-1691), a Dutch painter
  * Horatius Sebastiani (1771-1851), a French soldier and diplomat
  * Horatius Bonar (1808–1889), a Scottish churchman and poet
  * Horatius "H.H." Coleman (1892-1969), an American church pastor
  * Horatius Murray (1903-1989), a British Army General
  
  ### Fictional characters
  
  * Horatius Faversham, a character in the radio series The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
  
  ## Literature
  
  * a poem in the Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay; for the full text of the poem see Horatius)
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * The Horatius Stakes, an American thoroughbred horse race
  * G-AAXD Horatius, a named Handley Page H.P.42 airliner
  