Crossword clues for maecenas
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a generous patron of literature or the arts," 1560s, from name of Gaius Clinius Maecenas (died 8 B.C.E.), Roman patron of Horace and Virgil.
Usage examples of "maecenas".
Gaius Maecenas came complaining about a squalid Picentine moving into his room, Ventidius was not impressed.
Gaius Maecenas that he confronted a social equal, for he got up with a welcoming smile.
Several fell when his eyes reached his big, comfortable bed, but Gaius Maecenas was no fool.
Nor the slightest hint of an invitation, though Octavius had revealed a degree of perception about behavior that must surely have informed him that Gaius Maecenas, lover of women, was also a lover of men.
Salvidienus returned several hours later, he found the room stripped of its trappings, and Gaius Maecenas seated at a plain folding table, his ample behind on a folding stool.
He will need military men like Salvidienus and me, he will need a paper man like Maecenas, and we must be there for him, despite whatever happens during the years that must elapse between now and when Gaius Octavius comes into his own.
Octavian took Maecenas, Salvidienus and the Apennine-hopping Marcus Agrippa, recently returned with two wagons full of wooden planks.
At Arretium, the home of Gaius Maecenas, who belonged to its ruling family, he went to earth among friends and waited to see what Mark Antony would do.
Salvidienus began to plan military action, and Maecenas asked a question.
His more invisible helper, Gaius Maecenas, remained in Rome on less obvious business, chiefly concerned with recruiting innovative men of the lower classes.
Triumvirs had contented himself with masturbation until after his marriage, when the perceptive and subtle Maecenas took a hand.
Agrippa, Statilius Taurus, Maecenas, Salvidienus, Lucius Cornificius, Titius, Cornelius Gallus, the Coccei, Sosius .
Clearly one look had informed Gaius Maecenas that he confronted a social equal, for he got up with a welcoming smile.
When Maecenas got his breath back, he stared at his furniture through a veil of tears.
So when Salvidienus returned several hours later, he found the room stripped of its trappings, and Gaius Maecenas seated at a plain folding table, his ample behind on a folding stool.