. ready and retentive, thathe is said to have been able to come out of asale-room and repeat the auction-list backwards(CicBr^. 95, 96; Sen. Contr. 1). Hepossessed immense wealth, and had severalvillas, the most splendid of which was the onenear Laurentum. He was the first person atRome who brought peacocks to table (Varr. iii. 13, 17; Plin. xiv. 96).—2. Q., surnamedHortalus, son of the preceding, by Lutatia,the daughter of Catulus. In youth he lived alow and profligate life, and appears to havebeen at last cast off by
. ready and retentive, thathe is said to have been able to come out of asale-room and repeat the auction-list backwards(CicBr^. 95, 96; Sen. Contr. 1). Hepossessed immense wealth, and had severalvillas, the most splendid of which was the onenear Laurentum. He was the first person atRome who brought peacocks to table (Varr. iii. 13, 17; Plin. xiv. 96).—2. Q., surnamedHortalus, son of the preceding, by Lutatia,the daughter of Catulus. In youth he lived alow and profligate life, and appears to havebeen at last cast off by his father. On thebreaking out of the Civil war in 49, he joinedCaesar, and fought on his side in Italy andGreece (Plut. Caes. 32 ; Suet. Jul. 31). In 44he held the province of Macedonia, and Brutuswas to succeed him. After Caesars assassina-tion, M. Antony gave the province to hisbrother Caius. Brutus, however, had alreadytaken possession, with the assistance of Horten-sius. When the proscription tcck place, Hor-tensius was in the list; and in revenge he. Horus. (Wilkinson.) Apollo (Hdt. ii. 144). As avenger of the deathof his father Osiris he overcame the evil deityTyphon. Horus was in the prevailing mythregarded as the youthful sun, born afresh everymorning, and in this guise was called Harpe-chrat, or the child-Horus, which the Greeksrepresented by Harpocrates. The conventionalstatues of this child-Horus were represented ina sitting posture with his finger in his mouth,which was a symbol of childhood. From amisapprehension of this attitude in the Egypt-ian statues the Greeks and Romans regardedHarpocrates as the god of Silence (Ov. 691; Varr. ; Plut. Is. 68). Underthe empire his worship in this character came inwith that of other Egyptian deities. In arthe was represented most commonly as a nakedboy with his finger on his lips and with a lotusflower on his head. His image was also placedas an amulet on signet rings (Plin. xxxiii. 41).But he was represented
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