Maecenas
Meanings
noun
- A generous benefactor; specifically, a patron of literature or art.
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Etymology
Derived from Middle French mecenas, and its source, Latin Maecēnās (“literary patron”), from the name of Gaius Maecenas (c. 70–8 BCE), Roman statesman and patron of Horace and Virgil.
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