Maecenas

"Maecenas knew, but has left me to tell you the news from Athens."

How much, Maecenas wondered, has he come prepared to take?

"No, he felt it was time for a begging Maecenas."

Therefore to use Maecenas was out of the question.

Maecenas asked what kind of house could possibly be suitable at all seasons.

Octavian's response to the terms Maecenas brought him was very different.

Maecenas, he reflected, would have called it a desert of right angles.

He assures him that this is not how Maecenas and his friends operate.

Maecenas also wrote literature himself in both prose and verse.

Interesting, thought Maecenas, how much his face has changed over this last twelve-month.

He fancied himself as a Maecenas rather than a financier.

The young princess was to be called "Maecenas to the learned ones of her brother's kingdom".

"If you want a secretary present to take the minutes, I have a man," Maecenas went on.

"Therefore," he said to Maecenas, "she will be my wife in name only.

The poet died at 56 years of age, not long after his friend Maecenas, near whose tomb he was laid to rest.

"It's our duty, Maecenas, to even things up and out.

Jerked out of his astrological analysis, Maecenas started, then nodded.

Fishing through a number of scrolls near him, Maecenas found one, and flourished it.

"Such a beautiful turn of phrase," Maecenas murmured when his two superiors said nothing at all.

Maecenas drew a breath and held out shaking hands.

"I can't answer that, Maecenas, the future is too clouded.

Maecenas say: "I shall tell him that with the greatest pleasure.

Just at the moment, however, our problem concerns the Orb of Maecenas.

Maecenas went to his villa in the province, which is to say Long Island.

That isn't going to happen, Antonius, Maecenas thought to himself.