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Title: Boys' heroes
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Subjects: Heroes Biography
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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a, admiring his courage, proposed at once thatthe Romans should every one make him a present of a daysprovisions, and afterwards give him as much land as hecould plough around in one day, and besides, erected a brazenstatue to his honor in the temple of Vulcan, as a requittalfor the lameness caused by his wound. This statue, it would appear, remained visible toa late period in Roman history. All this happened when the republic was newlyformed, Publicola being, indeed, one of the first twoconsuls. The name of Horatius is enough to showthat Codes was one of the great Horatian family,which appears very early in history and lasted tillafter the Empire began. The poet Horace was con-nected with it in some way; and every boy named Horace may look to it as having given him hisname. So we know that Horatius Codes was, ina fashion, a relation of the three Horatii. * This is one of Plutarchs frequent absurdities. Cyclops is a Greekword, and there was no reason why the Romans should speak Greek.
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ALONE STOOD BRAVE HORATIUS. HORATIUS COCLES. S3 Now it may have been that the Horatian fam-ily, or gens, as it is the rather affected fashion tocall it now, was specially prolific of brave men,ready to die for their country. Or it may be, that,some fifty or a hundred years after, there was somebard among the retainers of the family or in thefamily itself, who was specially good in composingand singing the lays of old times. In that casethere would be more Lays of the Horatian familythan of any other, and their lays would have lastedlonger. Mr. Macaulay, in his ballad, clings very closelyto this story. He gives to it the confirmation ofthe statue. And, in all such things, a visible statue is a greathelp to the man who sings the song. And they made a molten image And set it up on high,And there it stands until this day To witness if I lie.It stands in the Comitium, Plain for all folk to see,Horatius in his harness Halting upon one knee. 34 boys heroes. And underneath is written In lette

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