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HORREA

Volume 8 · 101 words · 1797 Edition

in Roman antiquity, were public magazines of corn and salt meat, out of which the soldiers were furnished on their march in the military roads of the empire. Horrea was also the name which they gave to their granaries.

HORROX (Jeremiah), an eminent English astronomer in the 17th century, was born at Texteth near Liverpool in Lancashire in 1619. He died, to the great loss of that science and of the world, in the 23rd year of his age, after he had just finished his Venus in sole viso; which, with some other works, were published by Dr Wallis, in quarto.