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MAECENAS, a trusted adviser of Augustus, and a munificent patron of wits and literary men.
Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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MAECENAS, as we shall notice immediately, was, or affected to be, a writer of some pretension; and MESSALA'S eloquence was of so high an order, that had he been allowed the opportunity of freely using it, he would beyond doubt have been numbered among the great orators of Rome.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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A GALLIC MAECENAS – ANECDOTE CONCERNING BEAUMARCHAIS – THE DUKE DE NIVERNAIS – MME.
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To M AE C E N A S. MAECENAS. you, beneath the myrtle shade,
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral Phillis Wheatley 1768
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