a mountain, or mountainous tract of Arabia Petraea, situated in that circuit which the Israelites took to the south and south-east of Edom in their way to the borders of Moab; on this mountain Aaron died. The inhabitants were called Horites. This tract was also called Seir, either from a native Horite, or from Esau, by way of anticipation from his hairy habit of body; whose posterity drove out the Horites.

HORÆ. See Hours.

HORÆA, in antiquity, solemn sacrifices, consisting of fruits, &c. offered in spring, summer, autumn, and winter; that heaven might grant mild and temperate weather. These, according to Meurinus, were offered to the goddesses called Ωραι, i.e. Hours, who were three in number, attended upon the Sun, presided over the four seasons of the year, and had divine worship paid them at Athens.