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 denominated Seir.

HOREA, in Antiquity, were solemn sacrifices, consisting of fruits and other products of the earth, offered in spring, summer, autumn, and winter, that heaven might grant mild and temperate weather. These, according to Mearsius, were offered to the goddesses called ἱππος, or Hours, who, being three in number, attended upon the sun, presided over the four seasons of the year, and had divine honours paid them at Athens.