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Horatius Society: Forty-six HLS Sixth Graders recite all of Horatius at the Bridge.

At the beginning of each and every school year, Highlands Latin School students in sixth grade face a challenge—memorize all 70 stanzas (16 pages, 589 lines, 3,201 words) of Horatius at the Bridge.

Horatius Society: Thirty-eight HLS Sixth Graders recite all of Horatius at the Bridge.

2018 Horatius society signatures

Each school year at Highlands Latin School, as a portion of classical studies the sixth-grade class learns 24 stanzas of Horatius at the Bridge, the poem by Thomas Babington and Lord Macaulay.

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