"Horatian" meaning in English

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          "text": "There are three typical forms of ode: Horatian, Pindaric and irregular. Horatian odes follow the conventions of Horace, who deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon.",
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          "text": "Jonson was the most Horatian of the Elizabethans, both by nature and by study.",
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          "ref": "1963, C. O. Brink, Horace on Poetry, Volume 1: Prolegomena to the Literary Epistles, Cambridge University Press, page 135",
          "text": "Again nothing could be more Horatian than the high spirits of the introduction of the poem.",
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          "text": "While these writers would have been familiar with both, some were naturally \"attracted to the abrasiveness of Juvenal rather than the suavity of Horace\" while others found they were able to express whatever they wanted to express in more Horatian tones.",
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace or to his works or style",
          "word": "horatiusi"
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace or to his works or style",
          "word": "Horáiteach"
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace or to his works or style",
          "word": "oraziano"
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace or to his works or style",
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      "word": "horatiusi"
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      "word": "Horáiteach"
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