Maecenas : Gaius Cilnius (c.70-78 BC), diplomat, counsellor to the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar, whose loyalty gave him considerable influence in early Imperial Rome. He was a patron & friend of Horace & Virgil.
... to you too chemical like the formula for a patent medicine, but there it is. Incidentally, I am more convinced than ever that you lived and wrote and sighed ('I am between tears and sighs', said Maecenas as he sat between the weak and watery-eyed Virgil and the aesthetic Horace) under Augustus Caesar. You have kept the spirit and turn and most even of the manner. "Your 'epistolary frivolity' was ...
... Augustus, but yet they did not always get on very well together from want of sufficient intellectual comprehension of each other—Horace—No—it was a private friendship—To found the empire? Agrippa, Maecenas,—at first Antony, though they quarrelled afterwards—You see, that was a dream & dreams very often distort things. You must understand them generally without pressing the details. He meant that the ...
... Poems in Quantitative Metres The Future Poetry The Witness and the Wheel The metre is the little Asclepiad used by Horace in his Ode addressed to Maecenas, two choriambs between an initial spondee and a final iamb. Here modulations are admitted, trochee or iamb for the spondee, occasionally a spondee for the concluding iamb; an epitrite or ionic a minore ...
... stones and so forth; her busy agents, recruited from among the best in Europe, literally stripped the private collections of France, England and Italy. She was also to become an enlightened Maecena, the patron of poets, writers and philosophers, from whom she asked nothing in return but a bit of flattery. She built schools and hospitals, and busied herself with making textbooks for Russian children ...
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