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comparative more Horatian, superlative most Horatian
(literature, poetry) Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus; 65–8 BCE) or to his works or style. quotations examples
Jonson was the most Horatian of the Elizabethans, both by nature and by study.
1894 May, E. H. Lewis, “The Influence of Horace in English Literature”, in The Quarterly Calendar, Vol. III, No. 1, University of Chicago Press, page 97
Again nothing could be more Horatian than the high spirits of the introduction of the poem.
1963, C. O. Brink, Horace on Poetry, Volume 1: Prolegomena to the Literary Epistles, Cambridge University Press, page 135
While these writers would have been familiar with both,[the Horatian and Juvenalian styles of satire] 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.
2022, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, Roman Satire, BRILL, page 80