Maecenas
pronunciation
How to pronounce Maecenas in British English:
UK [mi(:)ˈsi:næs]
How to pronounce Maecenas in American English:
US [miˈsinəs, mɪ-]
Word Origin
- Maecenas
- "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.
Example
- 1. Think of all those maecenas who doubted you .
- 2. Maecenas died childless and left all his wealth , including his palace and gardens on the esquiline hill ( the eastern plateau of rome ) , to augustus , with whom he had never ceased to be on friendly terms .
- 3. Consider the differences in attitudes , beliefs , and values as well as styles between authors who promote or profit from the republican form of government ( livy , cicero , julius caesar , agrippa in cassius dio ) and those who champion the imperial form ( horace , vergil , ovid , maecenas in cassius dio ) .