Front | Maecenas \mih-SEE-nus\ |
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Back | noun A generous patron especially of literature or art. [After Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, Roman statesman, friend and patron of Horace and Virgil.] "The elected or appointed Maecenas learns to think not of art but of a line of goods known as `The Arts.'" - Lewis H. Lapham, Performance art, Harper's Magazine, Dec 1999. |
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